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Jewish Influences 


American Life 


Volume II! 


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The International few 
The World’s Foremost Problem 





Being a Reprint of a Third Selection 
from Articles Appearing in 
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Preface 


‘THE present volume, third in the series, is com- 

piled for the same purpose as its predecessors— 
to enable new readers of Tur DEARBORN INDEPENDENT 
to commence their reading with the earlier articles 
in the series of studies in The Jewish Question. 

It was inevitable that the publication first to open 
the discussion of this Question should be compelled 
to meet the degrading charge of “anti-semitism” and 
kindred falsehoods; but it was also inevitable that . 
if the work of such a publication should prove to be 
valid, the way would be cleared for discussion by 
other publications which had not and need not bring 
upon themselves the charge of racial hatred. 

This is precisely what has occurred. An un- 
dreamed of publicity for the essentials of the Jewish 
Question has been achieved in this country. It is 
noteworthy that whether the publicity be in agree- 
ment with or against THe DEARBORN. INDEPENDENT, 
the essential facts are the same, and these facts were 
first set forth in this paper. 

That, indeed, constitutes the strength of the arti- 
cles. The facts are provable; they are not disprova- 
ble. The reader can confirm the facts from his own 


- observation. With regard to the matters discussed 


in these volumes, there are too many observers of the 
Jew to permit misstatements to pass. This also 
constitutes the dilemma of the self-appointed de- 
fenders of the Jews: they may abuse THe DEARBORN 
INDEPENDENT, but they cannot disprove the facts. 
They do not make even an impressive denial of them. 
The whole situation would be much clarified if Jew- 
ish spokesmen would use frankness, instead of a 
fusillade of cheap and irrelevant abuse. 

The year has witnessed much notable discussion 
of The Jewish Question in magazines of quality. A 


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4 PREFACE 


few have descended to white-washing, fewer still to 
sheer pro-Jewish propaganda; but such articles as 
those in the September Century; those in the 
Atlantic for February, May and July; The Nine- 
teenth Oentury and After for April; the true and 
admirable accounts by Lieut. Commander Hugo W. 
Koehler, of the U. S. Navy, in the World’s Work for 
July, August, September and October—these testify 
to the reality of the matter. The more serious reli- 
gious press, aS represented by publications like the 
Christian Standard, the Christian Century, The 
Moody Monthly which is published by The Moody 
Bible Institute, Chicago, have also added materially 
to the literature of the question. In editorial vision. 
and liberty of discussion, the religious press has 
‘Shown itself to be freer of control than has the 
secular press. 

This volume contains information dealing with 
the influence of the Jewish idea on American life. 
The departments of life here studied do not by any 
means exhaust the list. The studies are more and 
more centering on the actual operations of the 
Jewish program upon the American people, and the 
effect of Jewish conceptions on our common life. 
These studies are appearing in THr DBARBORN INDBE- 
PENDENT now. They will be gathered into future 
volumes as may be required. 


November, 1921, 


XLII. 
SIV. 
XLV. 


XLVI. 
ALVItL, 


XLVIII. 
LIX. 
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LIT. 


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Contents 


Page 
The Jews and the “Religious Persecution” Cry 7 
Are the Jews Victims or Persecutors? 21 
Jewish Gamblers Corrupt American Baseball 37 
Jewish Degradation of American Baseball 51 
Jewish Jazz Becomes Our National Music 64 
How the Jewish Song Trust Makes You Sing 75 


Jewish Hot-Beds of Bolshevism in the U. S. 88 
Jew Trades Link With World Revolutionaries 102 
Will Jewish Zionism Bring Armageddon? 114 
How the Jews Use Power—By an Eyewitness 128 
How Jews Ruled and Ruined Tammany Hall 141 
Jew Wires Direct Tammany’s Gentile Puppets 155 
B’nai B’rith Leader Discusses the Jews 167 
Dr. Levy, a Jew, Admits His People’s Error 179 
Jewish Idea in American Monetary Affairs 191 
Jewish Idea Molded Federal Reserve Plan 205 
Jewish Idea of Central Bank for America 218 
How Jewish International Finance Functions 230 
Jewish Power and America’s Money Famine 243 


The Writer of the Following Letter 
Ts a Jew: 


“Gentlemen: 

““Because you believe in a good cause, said 
Dr. Johnson, “is no reason why you should feel 
called upon to defend it, for by your manner of 
defense you may do your cause much harm’: 

“The above applying tome I will only say that 
I have received the books you sent me and read 
both with much interest. 

“You are rendering the Jews a very great 
service, that of saving them from themselves. 

“Tt takes courage, and nerve, and intelligence 


do and pursue such a work, and I admire you 
or it.” 


XLII. 


_ The Jews and the ‘‘Relisious 
Persecution’’ Cry 


WE CHEERFULLY give the Jews of. the United 

States credit for knowing when they are get- 
ting their money’s worth. In the defense that has 
been set up for them they know that they have not 
had their money’s worth, neither from Jewish money 
collectors nor from the “Gentile fronts” to whom 
the money has been paid. The Louis Marshall line 
of defense has broken down. The boycott has 
dribbled into nothingness. Speeches in Congress 
and editorials in newspapers have sounded too hol- 
low to carry conviction. The Question has proved 
itself far too big for those who have entered the 
defense for gain, to satisfy personal grudges, or to 
win what they feel to be the favor of the stronger 
side. The Jews long ago quit the course which 
some of the “Gentile fronts” still continue; the 
Jews recognized the futility of it. 

No intelligent Jew in the United States ever 
was asinine enough to declare that the Jewish Ques- 
tion is a religious question and that Tur Drarporn 
INDEPENDENT’S investigation of that question con- 
stituted “religious persecution.” No Jew known 
beyond the next street has ever ventured such a 
silly charge. But it is apparently all that remains 
for the “Gentile fronts” to shout about. From what 
can be learned of them they are for the most part 
men of no religion themselves and they use the 
term “religious persecution” as a red rag which they 
think will stir people into action. It is rather curi- 
ous how the cry of “religious persecution” is used 
to evoke the spirit of persecution against alleged 
persecutors. 

Tur DearsorN INDEPENDENT this week goes out 
of its course to squelch once and forall this cry 
of religious persecutions. 


8 THE INTERNATIONAL JEW 


Three statements are sufficient to outline the 
situation : 

First, neither directly nor by implication has 
THe Drarsorn INDEPENDENT held that the Jewish 
Question is a religious question. On the contrary, 
supported by the highest Jewish authority, this 
paper has held that the Jewish Question is one of 
race and nationality. (See issues of October 9 and 
16, 1920; reprinted in the new book, volume two of 
“The International Jew.” ) 

Second, there is no religious persecution of the 
Jew in the United States, unless the agitation of 
various humane societies for the abolition of “kosher 
killing” may be considered such. The Massachu- 
setts Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Ani- 
mals has published a valuable study of the Jewish 
method of slaughtering animals for food, in which 
is adduced much scientific evidence to support the 
conclusion that the Jewish method is “needlessly 
cruel.” But even this can only with difficulty be 
stretched into an interference with “the religion of 
the Jews.” The Jewish method of slaughter as 
now practiced is not commanded in the Old Testa- 
ment but in the Talmud, and is, therefore, not re- 
ligious in the authoritative sense, but traditional. 
Moreover, there is positive evidence that modern 
methods achieve the Jewish purpose (the disposal 
of the blood of the carcass) much better than does 
the Jewish method. This is the only instance where 
even remotely the religion of the Jews has been 
_ touched. 

Third, the fact is that while there is no “religious 
persecution” of the Jews, there is very much real 
religious persecution by the Jews. That is one of 
the outstanding characteristics of organized Jewish 
life in the United States, its active, unceasing, 
powerful and virulent attacks upon any and all 
forms of Christianity which may chance to come to 
public notice. Now and again we hear of outbreaks 
of sectarian bigotry between Catholics and Protes- 
tants, but these are not to be compared with the 
steady, relentless, alert, anti-Christian activity of 


THE JEWS AND THE “RELIGIOUS PERSECUTION” CRY 9 


the Jewish organizations. There are doctrinal dis- 
putes within the Christian churches, but none that 
challenge the basis of Christianity itself; organized 
Judaism, however, is not content with doctrinal 
disputation, but enlists its vast commercial and 
political power against everything that it regards 
as, in its own words, “Christological manifesta- 
tions.” 

Now, these are facts, and being facts, they are 
important, and they ought to be publicly known. 

No President of the United States has yet dared 
to take his inaugural oath on the open pages of the 
New Testament—the Jews would denounce him. 
When General Pershing announced that he con- 
sidered the morale of the American soldier due to 
the interest of the Christian men and women at 
home, the Jews had him cut out the word “Chris- 
tian.” Various governors of American states, hav- 
ing used the word “Christian” in their Thanksgiving 
proclamations, have been obliged to excise it on 
demand of the Jews. The word “Christian” was 
compelled to be cut out of the officers’ training 
manual at the Plattsburg training camp. L[very- 
thing that would remind the child in school that 
he is living in the midst of a Christian civilization, 
in a nation declared by its Supreme Court to be 
founded on Christian principles, has been ordered 
out of the public schools on Jewish demand. 

People sometimes ask why 3,000,000 Jews can 
control the affairs of 100,000,000 Americans. In 
the same way that ten Jewish students can abolish 
the mention of Christmas and Easter out of schools 
containing 3,000 Christian pupils. 

In a nation and at a time when a minority of 
Jews can print every year a record of the apolo- 
gies they have extorted from public officials for 
“having inadvertently used the term ‘Christian,’ ” it 
is desirable that this charge of “religious persecu- 
tion” should be placed where it belongs. In the 
Daily American Tribune, a Catholic daily published 
at Dubuque, Iowa, appeared a recent headline which 


10 THE INTERNATIONAL JEW 


said a great deal—Not Persecution of The Jews, 
But Protection of The Christians. 

It is now proposed to let the Jews speak for 
themselves on this question. The Jewish press has 
been searched for an authoritative expression charg- 
ing that the study of the Jewish Question consti- 
tutes “religious persecution,” and none has been 
found. That cry has been reserved for “Gentile 
fronts” for use among Christians. All the attacks ~ 
from the Jewish camp are against the doctrines and 
institutions of the Christians. They have carried 
on an insistent and successful persecution, and the 
details of it have filled the Jewish press for years 
past. 

Upon reading the following selections, the re- 
mark of Dean Swift will probably come to mind: 
“We are fully convinced that we shall always tol- 
erate them, but not that they will tolerate us.” 

The Red Cross is objectionable to the Jew. H. 
Lissauer, in The Jewish Times, proposed that the 
Magen David be substituted for “the red cross” on 
the Red Cross Society badges worn by Jews. 

“We should not let our sensitiveness to charges 
of intolerance overcome our conscientious religious 
objections to the cross,” says Mr. Lissauer. The 
editor of The Jewish Independent thinks the sug- 
gestion “is worthy of serious consideration.” 

The Gideons are objectionable to the Jew. The 
Gideons is the name given to the Christian Com- 
mercial Travelers’ Association of America, whose 
efforts are responsible for the ‘Bibles which are to 
be found in most hotel rooms. This is from the 
Cleveland Jewisi. Independent: 

“Tt is quite evident that the Gideons do not know 
a typically Jewish name when they see or hear one. 
The Gideons’ object, according to their letterheads, 
is ‘winning commercial traveling men for Christ? and 
the way this is done is by placing a Christian Bible 
in each guest room of every hotel. 

“The Gideons have been at it a long Gane long 
enough to know better, but the other day they sent 
a letter to Max Cohen of this city, who is a traveling 


THE JEWS AND THE “RELIGIOUS PERSECUTION” CRY 11 


man but the kind the Gideons have no right to ask 
for funds, and the person who selected him for an 
‘easy mark’ certainly should have had better sense. 

“Mr. Cohen utterly failed to ‘fall’ for the in- 
vitation and instead of sending his little donation 
he wrote a letter to the secretary, C. A. Johnson, in 
which he bluntly said: ‘Don’t you think you ought 
to use better judgment than to ask me to contribute 
‘ ie strictly religious work opposite to my own be- 
ief ? 

“Tf the Gideons insist upon filling up hotels with 
Bibles that have no business there they should go 
to the right persons for contributions.” 

The Jews do not like the Salvation Army nor 
the Y. M. OC. A. Many thousands of printed lines 
expressed the fury with which they regarded at- 
tempts to “Christianize the Army and Navy” dur- 
ing the war, and the wild arguments with which 
they sought to make “Y” work and Salvation Army 
work appear to be a violation of the principle of 
no union of Church and State. The same objection 
was made to religious welfare work during the 
building of the Panama Canal. If there is any chal- 
lenge of this on the part of uninformed “Gentile 
fronts” (the Jews themselves will not challenge it) 
the evidence can be produced. It is only a matter 
of space. 

The Jews did not like Theodore Roosevelt’s choice 
of a hymn for the Progressive party: 

“With Hon. Oscar S. Strauss as the nominee for 
the governorship of New York on the Progressive 
ticket, this question rises: Will the voters on the 
East Side of New York march to the Progressive 
battle hymn, ‘Onward, Christian Soldiers,’ or will 
the song have to be changed to fit the candidate?” 
—American Israelite. 

The Jews hate with a malice beyond expression 
what they call “mission holes,’ that is, a place of 
instruction maintained by Christian churches where 
inquiring Jews may learn what Christianity is and, 
in many instances, where destitute and neglected 
Jews may receive assistance and counsel. The 


12 THE INTERNATIONAL JEW 


boast of how “the Jew cares for his own” is given a 
jolt by the dire need which has called Christian wel- 
fare work into Jewish settlements. 

This hatred overrode good judgment so com- 
pletely that in 1911 Assemblyman Heyman intro- 
duced into the New York State legislature a bill 
making it an offense punishable by fine or imprison- 
ment to entice or tempt a minor under sixteen years 
of age into a religious mission, Sunday school or 
church without the written consent of the parents 
or guardian of the minor! The language indicates 
a part of the contempt in which the welfare work 
undertaken by Christian institutions for the need- 
iest class of children in America is held by the 
leaders among the Jews; not by the masses of the 
Jews themselves, however, except when they are 
terrified by their leaders. 

In St. Louis, application for a charter of the 
Jewish Christian Association was opposed. The 
converted Jews wanted an association oftheir own. 
They represented that they had been ostracized by 
the Jews and were desirous of organizing and own- 
ing their own meeting place. A _ referee advised 
against the charter on the ground that “it would be 
contrary to the broad spirit of religious freedom 
guaranteed under the constitution of Missouri.” 
The referee was, of course, coached by Jews. In 
the name of religious freedom these Jews opposed 
giving an association freedom enough to preach the 
gospel. 

In Toronto the Jewish leaders issued a proclama- 
tion throughout all Toronto Jewry forbidding the 
use of reading rooms, baths, dispensaries, motion 
picture shows or anything else which they described 
as “the petty bribery of conversionist tricksters who 
seek for their wealthy donators to open the gates 
of heaven and find salvation for their sins by con- 
verting a weak-minded Jew.” 

By the way, all converted Jews are weak-minded 
or criminal, if we are to believe the hundreds of 
statements to that effect in the Jewish papers. The 


THE JEWS AND THE “RELIGIOUS PERSECUTION” CRY 13 


Jews are, without exception, superior people until 
they become Christians; then learn what they are 
from the Jewish leaders! 

Among the nice names for this welfare work are 
“Jesus holes,” “mission traps,” “Jew-snatchers,” 
“child stealers.”’ 

It happened that one of the helpers in the Chi- 
cago Gospel Mission was principal of a Chicago 
public school. The Jews raised a great outcry 
against him, denounced him as unfit to teach chil- 
dren, and guilty of “the moral turpitude of eating 
food provided by taxes of which a large share is re- 
ceived from Jews, whose children they seek to entice 
from their parental religion and whose men and 
women they are seeking to degrade into liars and 
hypocrites.” All because a competent man was 
willing to meet Jewish inquirers, or perhaps bring 
a few of the benefits of civilization into the neglected 
ghetto. If this school teacher were Christian enough 
to have a conscience, he would resign, said the Jew- 
ish thunderers, and with that never-failing tinge of 
dark-mindedness they added: “What is done in 
secret in these haunts can, of course, only be guessed 
hme 

Talk about bigotry! This from a peopie who en- 
courage the cry that Tur Drarsorn INDEPENDENT is 
engaged in “religious persecution,” though TH 
DHARBORN INDEPENDENT has not yet carried even one 
of the scores of sensational and important stories 
which show the Federal Government discovering 
synagogues and rabbis as agents of the illicit liquor 
traffic. “These haunts” and hints of the things that 
may go on there, is the only way the American 
Israelite can find to refer to welfare works in which 
some of the best people, from no motive but the good- 
ness of their hearts, engage. 

A book of 500 pages could be filled with the un- 
reasonable and in many cases positively vicious 
statements of leading Jews on any of the subjects 
touched here. 

The Jews do not like the Christian Sabbath. The 


14 THE INTERNATIONAL JEW 


literature of attack against this institution is volu- 
minous and the arguments extreme. Sunday is Chris- 
tian, therefore to the Jew it is taboo. Court records 
in every state bear testimony to the fight of the 
Jews against Sunday. Few legislatures have escaped 
being pestered with bills on the subject. The latest 
fight has been the strongest yet waged, to destroy 
Sunday by throwing it wide open to Jewish exploi- 
tation. Yet the Jews are most chary of their own 
Sabbath. When recent college examinations fell on 
Jewish holy days, the Jews had the examinations 
changed. When primary elections last year fell on 
Jewish days, every power was moved to change them. 
There are Jewish records of a western governor 
being remonstrated with because a condemned crim- 
inal was sentenced to be hanged on Saturday—did 
the governor mean to “offend 3,000,000 Jews”? ‘The 
St. Louis Charity Fair in 1908 planned to remain 
open on Friday evening; a great outcry; did the 
managers of that fair mean to insult the Jews; 
didn’t they know that the Jewish Sabbath began on 
Friday night? 

But when it is a question of maintaining the in- 
tegrity of Sunday—pooh! pooh! “Don’t the Chris- 
tians know that Sunday perpetuates the silliest su- 
perstition, that their god Jesus rose from the dead ?” 
When certain people aid the post office employes in 
an attempt to close the post offices on Sunday, the 
Jews regard it as a step back toward the dark ages. 

Here is a Jewish editorial relating to Governor 
Cox. It appears that Governor Cox in 1914 stood for: 
a decent Sunday and liquor law enforcement, and 
this is the threat held out to him: 

“At the 59th Jackson Day banquet of the Wayne 
County (Ohio) Democracy, which was held at 
Wooster, Governor Cox made the principal address 
in which he defended laws passed at his instigation. 
The governor laid particular stress on the fact that 
for the first time in her history, Ohio now enjoys a 
‘Christian Sabbath.’ 

“<T stand or fall by the Christian Sabbath in the 


THE JEWS AND THE “RELIGIOUS PERSECUTION” CRY 15 


next campaign,’ the governor is reported to have 
Soo ees 

“There are many who construe the declaration 
to mean that Governor Cox has bid defiance to the 
liberal element of the state and will rely upon the 
religious and class prejudices which he is arousing 
and keeping alive in the rural districts, to re-elect 
him to his present office, or, what is clearly plain 
from his entire attitude, boost him into the nomina- 
tion for United States Senatorship. The Israelite 
will take great pleasure about the time the leaves be- 
gin to turn in reminding Governor Cox of his state- 
ment that he ‘will stand or fall by a Christian Sab- 
bath’ in the coming campaign.”—American Israelite. 

The literature of Jewish thought toward Sunday 
presents complete evidence of the leaders’ antagon- 
ism to this distinctly Christian and Anglo-Saxon 
institution. Sunday has never been regarded as set 
apart, in those countries where the Jewish idea has 
most infiltrated. The decline of Sunday in the 
United States is directly along the line of those in- 
vasions of the Sunday spirit which are mostly 
aligned with Jewish commercial interests. In Great 
Britain and her colonies where the Jew is not per- 
mitted to usurp a superior place as chief censor of 
morals and religion and education, Sunday is decent- 
ly observed. The situation in this country is that, 
instead of enjoying its liberty, the Jewish leaders 
have taken liberties. The student who wishes to 
know how deep and hard-set is the anti-Sunday pro- 
gram will find all the material he wants in Jewish 
sources. 

The theme of this article is “religious prejudice.” 
You will not find it anywhere within the whole range 
of the Jewish Question, except on the Jewish side. 
There is, in the United States, a religious prejudice, 
but it is strictly Yiddish. If the Christian popula- 
tion bothered one one-hundred-thousandth part as 
much about Jewish religion as the Jews bother about 
Christian observances, the whole fabric of Talmudi- 
cal teaching would be consumed in the bright light 


16 THE INTERNATIONAL JEW 


to which general attention would bring it, the bright 
light from which it has always been concealed. Sheer 
analysis in the interest of mental health, if under- 
taken by fifty men, would compel the Jewish people 
by their own decision to abandon the darkness which 
holds them now. Jewish Talmudism owes its exist- 
ence today to the indifference with which it is re- 
garded. This is the far opposite extreme of “reli- 
gious persecution.” 

The list of headlines describing the various angles 
of Jewish anti-Christian religious prejudice is not, 
however, exhausted. 

The Jew is prejudiced against the Bible. When 
he uses that term, he does not mean what the ordi- 
nary person means. Therefore, he does what he 
can to destroy public honor of the ‘Book, unless it 
be an occasion where a President has been inaugu- 
rated, when it will run through the Jewish press like 
a strong breeze that once more has a Christian 
statesman ignored the Christian Bible and turned 
to the Jewish Bible. It is rather a trifling matter to 
mention; its significance comes solely from the light 
it throws on the Jewish attitude. It is not a trifling 
thing in Jewry, as the country will probably be 
made aware if any future President should be sworn 
in with, say, the Sermon on the Mount open before 
him. 

And yet, even here, we observe a strange para- 
dox. A Jewish authority says: “The Jew is a para- 
dox. He is at once an idealist and a materialist. 
He is parsimonious and extravagant. He is cou- 
rageous and cowardly. He is modest and vulgar. 
He is persistent and yielding. He is peaceful and 
warlike” and so on. And though the Jew op- 
poses the Bible in the schools, he never misses 4 
chance to put it there, with the Jewish trade-mark. 
He quotes the Psalms—‘We wrote them.” He 
quotes Isaiah—‘We Jews did that.” 

Most people sit open-mouthed at these glorious 
authors of Scripture and do not know how to an- 
swer. It is time the Churches began to learn what 





THE JEWS AND THE “RELIGIOUS PERSECUTION” CRY 17 


to say to the Jewish taunts—‘We gave you your 
god ;” “We gave you your bible;” “We gave you your 
savior.” Perhaps it is also time that the Jews them- 
selves considered how long the boast will stand the 
usage they are giving it. 

In any case the literature which the Jews wrong- 
fully claim as their. own production, is rather far 
distant in time to justify its being used as a mantle 
of glory for the political rabbis, the discredited 
theatrical and movie magnates, and the violent pen- 
men of the Jewish press. Rather too distant in 
time! We, the race that confronts the Jews, have 
done somewhat more recent work; for example, the 
Declaration of Independence and the Emancipation 
Proclamation, not to mention the psalms and pro- 
nouncements of the great American prophets that 
have lifted up the world. 

So, the Jew is very willing that the Bible should 
be in the schools, provided it is not what he calls 
. “the Christian Bible.” Listen to this: 

“Hebrew is to be taught in the Chicago high 
schools. Students who include this language in 
their course are to receive the credit now allowed 
for the study of other classical languages. 
Of infinite value in the training of the mind are 
the wonderful narratives of Genesis, and boys 
and girls will find the history of Israel under the 
Judges much more appealing than Caesar’s 
bridge over the Rhine.” 

The people of New Jersey thought so, too; they 
believed that a reading from this ancient book every 
day would mean much to the general culture of the 
pupils. But what did the paper just quoted say 
about it? It called the cultivated Bible appreciators 
of New Jersey “soul-snatching enthusiasts” and 
raised a mighty yell about “the forcible conversion 
of Jewish children,” although it was provided that 
Jewish or any other children should be excused from 
the reading if desired. ‘Another mighty yell about 
excusing the children all on account of the tyranny 
of reading the Christian Bible in the schools—re- 


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gardless of the fact, which every public school teach- 
er knows, that no class of children is oftener out of 
school for religious reasons than are the Jews. 

Truly, these people are a paradox. They are not 
fair. They are constituted so that they cannot see 
the other side of anything. For a time they actually 
do convince the secularists that every.thing public 
should be secularized down to the last notch of athe- 
istic demand. Non-Jews are fair. They are willing 
to see the other people’s point of view. When it was 
said to us that the ‘“Merchant of Venice” was a cruel- 
ty upon Jewish school pupils, we said, without in- 
vestigation, “Out goes the Merchant, then!” We dis- 
covered later that the Jewish children liked and ap- 
preciated that play better than any other group. 
Brander Matthews helped us discover that. 

And so when they said, “Reading the ‘Bible is 
sheer proselytizing; it isn’t fair,’ the non-Jew, who 
wanted to prove that he is fair and unprejudiced 
above all things else (a weakness the Jews know how 
to manipulate), said, “Well, then, out goes the 
Bible!” And it went out. Very well! What next? 
“You must abolish Christmas, too.” “You must not 
keep Easter—the Jews don’t like it.” “It is anti- 
Semitic to observe Good Friday.” In other words, 
to please the sensitive Jewish natures we must eradi- 
cate from Christian civilization all that is Christian 
in it. 

In the meantime what transpires? Having in- 
duced “fair-minded” non-Jews to do all these things 
—and every one above enumerated has been done 
over and over again at Jewish demand—the Jews 
then proceeded to sow Judaism on the fields thus 
denuded of Christianity. ‘No religion in the institu- 
tions of the State”—-yet in every state university last 
year there were, and in every state university this 
year there probably will be, courses of lectures de- 
livered by Jewish rabbis—the lectures delivered in 
the colleges themselves—propagandizing the youth 
of the non-Jews with Judaistic religion, ethics, and 
economics. That is what the so-called Jewish “Chau- 


THE JEWS AND THE “RELIGIOUS PERSECUTION” CRY 19 


tauqua” exists for. It is not a Jewish “Chautau- 
qua”; itis Jewish propaganda in public educational 
institutions. 

That is the repayment the Jews have made for 
our “fair-mindedness.” Their demand for complete 
secularization is merely their preparation of the 
soil for their carefully organized sowing of the seed 
of Judaism. And non-Jews permit it to continue, 
for there is nothing they fear so much as that their 
opposition will be regarded as “religious prejudice.” 

The Jew glories in religious prejudice, as the 
American glories in patriotism. Religious prejudice 
is the Jews’ chief expression of their own true pa- 
triotism. It is the only well-organized, active and 
successful form of religious prejudice in the country 
because they have succeeded in pulling off the gi- 
gantic trick of making not their own attitude, but 
any opposition to it, bear the stigma of “prejudice” 
and “persecution.” That is why the Jew uses these 
terms so frequently. He wants to label the other 
fellow first. That is why any investigation of the 
Jewish Question is so quickly advertised as anti- 
Semitism—the Jew knows the advantage of labeling 
the other man; wrong labels are most useful. 

This does not by any means exhaust the list of 
headlines describing the various avenues in which 
the expression of virulent Jewish religious prejudice 
and persecution is found. ‘But it exhausts the space 
allotted to these articles each week. Therefore, the 
subject will be concluded next week. 

It is not a pleasant subject. Religious prejudice 
is just as unpleasant to write about as it is to ex- 
perience in any other way. It is totally contrary to 
the genius of the American and the Anglo-Saxon. 
We have always regarded religion as a matter of 
conscience. ‘To believe as he will is part of every 
man’s fundamental liberty. To interfere with force 
to change anyone’s belief is exceedingly stupid. 

Holding these hereditary principles, one chooses 
to study that active stream of influence in American 
life which is known as the Jewish stream, and im- 


20 THE INTERNATIONAL JEW 


mediately upon doing so, one finds himself classed 
with the bigots and torturers of other times. 

It is now time to show that the cry of “bigot!” 
is raised mostly by bigots. There is a religious 
prejudice in this country, there is, indeed, a religious 
persecution, there is a forcible shoving aside of the 
religious liberties of a majority of the people, and 
this prejudice and persecution and use of force is 
Jewish and nothing but Jewish. 

This is the answer to the cry of “religious perse- 
cution,” and we shall make it so complete and 
defimite that a repetition of the cry against 
students of the Jewish Question will automatically 
mark the criers as either too Sear or too vicious 
for consideration, 





Issue of June 4, 1921. 


XLIV. 


Are the Jews Victims or 
Persecutors? 


“Half of Christendom worships a Jew; the 
other half worships a Jewess.”—-Jewish edito- 
rial. 


“If the gospel story is correct, Judas was a 
pretty decent sort of a fellow. It was only after 
he had become a convert to Christianity that he 
became that which has made his memory an ac- 
cursed thing for nineteen hundred years.”—Jew- 
ish editorial. 


“Our land is frequently called a Christian 
nation. No doubt the majority of our citizens 
believe this. No less an authority than Justice 
Brewer of the Supreme Court so expressed him- 
self in 1892. But the statement is clearly false 
....This is not a Christian nation. In inspira- 
tion, at least, itis a Hiebrew nation, for the Con- 
stitution which we now enjoy traces back to the 
Hebrew Commonwealth.”—Jewish editorial. 


(From the minutes of a meeting of the Com- 
mittee on Families of the New York Board of 
Child Welfare.) 

Mr. Hebbard: “That is one of the things I 
have in mind, that a widow brings deliberately 
into her home a nameless child and the inevit- 
able consequence of that is that her legitimate 
children are always thereafter pointed out.” 

Miss Sophie Irene Loeb: “As far as name- 
less children are concerned, Christ himself was 
a nameless child. Let us get away from name- 
less children.” 

Dr. Dirvoch: “I think where there are three 
or four children in a home and a little stranger 
enters that home without a father, you are cor- 
rupting the merals of those legitimate children 


22 


THE INTERNATIONAL JEW 


by permitting them to remain in such surround- 
ings.” 

Miss Loeb: “I say to you that this com- 
acttce, if it takes such an attitude as that, is one 
bh. -c~eu years behind the times.” 

Mr. Cunnion: “Anything against purity is 
immoral.” 

Miss Loeb: “What has that to do with the 
question of purity? Was the mother of Christ 
pure?” 

Mr. Cunnion: “Certainly.” 

Miss Loeb: “He had no name!” 

Mr. Cunnion: “You can’t bring that in here. 
We believe he was conceived without sin.” 

Mr. Menehan (to Miss Loeb) : “That is very 
wrong to make that statement.”—Cited in letter 
of complaint to Mayor Hylan. 


“The intimate relation of church and 
state in the great non-sectarian United States 
of America received direct demonstration on 
August 12 (1913), when a deputy sergeant-at- 
arms of the Senate was hurriedly sent out to get 
a preacher of any old denomination to open the 
Senate with prayer. The session opening an 
hour earlier than usual, the regular chaplain 
was not at hand, but with still two minutes to 
spare the deputy returned in an automobile, hur- 
ried to the Vice President’s office and introduced 
the Rey. Dr. C. Albert Homas, of Canonsburg, 
Pennsylvania, to Mr. Marshall just in time for 
the Vice President to lead the way into the Sen- 
ate chamber to open the session at 11 o’clock, 
and once again the Union was saved. We 
shudder to think what might have happened if 
no preacher had been captured in time to open 
the session with prayer!’—Jewish editorial. 


“President Wilson in his inaugural address 
said: ‘The firm basis of the Government is jus- 
tice, not pity.’ This is sound Jewish doctrine 
as laid down by Moses and the Prophets in con- 


ARE THE JEWS VICTIMS OR PERSECUTORS? 23 


tradistinction to the doctrine of love, as attri- 
buted to Jesus. This coming from so good a 
churchman as President Wilson might be a little 
surprising were it not that it is a well-known 
fact that whenever our Christian brethren want 
to talk to reasoning men they go to the Old 
Testament for their inspiration.”—Jewish edi- 
torial. 


“President Wilson at his inaugural gave an- 


other instance of the well-known fact that in 
solemn moments when they need comfort and in- 
spiration, Christians turn to the Old Testament 
and not to the New. So President Wilson, when 
he kissed the bible after taking the inaugural 
oath, selected the passage, Psalm 46.”—Jewish 
editorial. 


“Reference has frequently been made in these 


columns to a number of addresses made by the 
late Isaac M. Wise at the celebration in honor 
of his 80th birthday anniversary in the course of 
which he predicted that in a quarter of a cen- 
tury from that date (1899) there would be prac- 
tically nothing left in Protestant Christianity of 
a belief in the divinity of Jesus Christ or the dis- 
tinctive dogmas of Christianity, and that all 
Protestant Christians by whatever name they 
called themselves, would be substantially Jews 
in belief. To any one who notes the signs of the 
times it is apparent that this prophecy is being 
rapidly fulfilled . . . . The Jesus superstition 
and the fantastic dogmas built upon his sup- 
posed divine origin, die but slowly, but that they 
are dying is nevertheless apparent.”—Jewish 
editorial. 


fit 


HE subject of this article is “Religious Preju- 
dice and Persecution—Are the Jews Victims or 


Persecutors?” A study of history and of contempo- 
rary Jewish journalism shows that Jewish prejudice 
and persecution is a continuous phenomenon wher- 
ever the Jews have attained power, and that in 


24 THE INTERNATIONAL JEW 


neither action nor word has any disability placed 
upon the Jew equaled the disabilities he has placed 
and still contemplates placing upon non-Jews. It 
is a rather startling reversal of all that we have 
learned from our Judaized histories, but neverthe- 
less it seems to be the truth. 

Attention is once more called to the fact that the 
Jews themselves are not raising the cry of “religious 
persecution” here or elsewhere, but they are allowing 
their “Gentile fronts” to do it for them—just as 
they have not den‘ed the statements made in this 
series (among themselves they freely admit most of 
them) but let “Gentile fronts” do it for them. The 
Jews would not be averse to raising the cry of “re- 
ligious persecution” perhaps, (provided they could 
make it stand) were they not afraid that it would 
call attention to their own persecuting activities. 
But their “Gentile fronts” have brought that upon 
them. 

There is no Christian church that the Jews have 
not repeatedly attacked. 

They have attacked the Catholic Church. This is 
of special interest just now when Jewish agents are 
doing their utmost to arouse Catholic sentiment in 
their favor by circulating charges which these agents 
personally know to be false. Tum Drarsorn INDE- 
PENDENT has perfect confidence in the information 
which Catholic leaders may have on the Jewish 
Question. On this subject the Catholic priesthood 
is not misled. 

Examples of this attack are numerous. “Half of 
Christendom worships a Jewess,” is not a statement 
but a slur, flung by Jewish men who say in the 
ritual of morning prayer: “Blessed art thou, O Lord 
our God, King of the Universe, who hast not made 
me a woman.” The Talmudists’ discussions of the 
Virgin Mother are often vile. The Christian festi- 
vals, whose preservation is due to the Catholic cus- 
tom and conscience, are all attacked by Jews. 

The American Israelite, whose great prestige in 
American Jewry is due to its having been founded 
by Rabbi Isaac M. Wise, opposed the establishment 


ARE THE JEWS VICTIMS OR PERSECUTORS? 25 


of Columbus Day and berated Governor Hughes for 
signing the law making it a holiday in New York. 
The act that established it deserved “the contempt 
of thinking men.” Why? Is not the discovery of 
America a memorable event? Yes, but Columbus 
was a Catholic! However, in recent months the 
Jews are proving him to have been a Jew, so we may 
expect some day to see Columbus Day insisted upon 
with Jewish rites. 

The Catholic Columbian made editorial reference 
to the increasing Jewish influence on the American 
press, in these words: “Jewry is getting its grip on 
the news of this country as it is on Reuter’s and the 
Havas agency in Europe.”—A perfectly polite and 
true observation. 

But the Jewish editorial thunderer came back— 
“The Columbian, in its sneaking Jesuitical way; 
does not mention the fact that these (the Jewish) 
papers are the very cleanest in the country. The 
Columbian cannot point to a single daily owned by 
one of its co-religionists that begins to compare with 
the above papers.” 

The sweet spirit here evidenced is very significant 
today when an appeal is being made to create a 
strong pro-Jewish Catholic sentiment. 

If there is in the world any extra-ecclesiastical 
undertaking by Catholics which has won the undi- 
vided approval of the Christian world as the Passion 
Play of Oberammergau has done, the present writer 
does not know what it is. Yet in a volume entitled 
“A Rabbi's Impressions of the Oberammergau Pas- 
sion Play,’ Rabbi Joseph Krauskopf, D.D., of Phila- 
delphia, has stigmatized that notable production as 
reeking with falsehoods and vicious anti-Semitism. 
In 'the rabbi’s eyes, of course, it is, for to him the 
entire Christian tradition is a poisonous lie. The 
whole fabrie of Christian truth, especially as it 
concerns the person of Christ, are “the hallucinations 
of emotional men and hysterical women.” 

“Thus,” says the rabbi (p. 127) “was invented 
that cruel story, that has caused more misery, more 
innocent suffering, than any other work of fiction in 


26 THE INTERNATIONAL JEW — 


the range of the whole world’s literature.” And thus 
the simple peasants of Oberammergau, presenting 
the Catholic faith in reverent pageant, are labeled 
anti-Semites. 

These are not isolated instances. Antagonism to 
the Catholic Ghurch runs throughout Jewish litera- 
ture. The Jewish attitude was summed up in an 
editorial in the Jewish Sentinel of November 26, 
1920, as follows: “Our only great historical enemy, 
our most dangerous enemy, is Rome in all its shapes 
and forms, and in all its ramifications. Whenever 
the sun of Rome begins to set, that of Jerusalem 
rises.” These, however, are matters well known to 
Catholic leaders. 

In their turn the other Christian denominations 
have been attacked. When the Methodist Church 
put on the great pageant entitled “The Wayfarer,” 
Rabbi Stephen S. Wise played critic and made the 
solemn and silly statement that had he been a South 
Sea Islander (instead of the itinerant platform per- 
former which he is) his first impulse, after seeing 
“The Wayfarer,’ would have been to rush out into 
the street and kill at least three Jews. It says a 
great deal, perhaps, for the channel in which Rabbi 
Wise’s impulses run, but the tens of thousands of 
Methodists who saw “The Wayfarer” will not be 
inclined to attribute such a criticism to the spirit of 
tolerance which Rabbi Wise so zealously counsels 
the Christians to observe. 

The Episcopal Church also has felt the attack of 
the Jews. Recently the Jewish press raised a clamor 
that the Episcopal Church was not competent to 
teach Americanism in our cities because it held that 
Christianity and good citizenship were synonymous. 
And when the Episcopal Church made provision for 
mission work among the Jews, the torrent of abuse 
that was poured out gave a very vivid picture of 
what the Jewish mind naturally turns to when 
aroused. This abuse is not reproduced here because 
of its excessive violence and disrespect. It is similar 
to that which is heaped upon all attempts to explain 
Christianity to the Jews. “What would the Gen- 


~~” 


ARE THE JEWS VICTIMS OR PERSECUTORS? 27 


tiles do if we sent Jewish missionaries to them?” 
ask the violent editors. Any Gentile can answer that 
—nay, even the Jews themselves can answer that. 
In the first place, the Jews do not want to teach 
their religion to Gentiles because there is a Tal- 
mudical restriction against it; Talmudically the 
Gentiles are not good enough to mingle with the 
religious matters of the Jews. In the second place, 
the Jews do send missionaries everywhere, not to 
spread Jewish religious principles, but propaganda 
favoring the Jews as a race and people, as is done 
in our colleges through the so-called “Jewish Chau- 
tauqua.” In the third place, let there be produced 
one Jewish missionary, who has ever received any- 
thing but a considerate reception wherever he has 
appeared. 

The Jews are bitter against all Christian denomi- 
nations because of the conversion of numerous Jews 
to them. A large number of Jews have become Cath- 
olics; one of the Knights of Columbus’ most useful 
lecturers against the menace of radical socialism is 
a converted Jew. It is so also with the Presbyterian 
Church which has been the most recent victim of 
Jewish vituperation. But only upon the Catholic 
Church has the Jew poured more wrath and male- 
diction than he has poured upon Christian Science. 
The Christian Science church has attracted large 
numbers of Jewish converts. Some of them have 
become very active, devoted members of that form 
of faith. Scores of columns and pages have been 
devoted to their denunciation in Jewish newspapers, 
magazines and books. Christian Science is a pecu- 
liar anathema to the Jew. 

Where then is the religious prejudice? Search 
through the publications of all the churches named, 


_ and you cannot find in all their history so much of 


the spirit of prejudice and persecution as you 
can find expressed in the Jewish press in one single 
day. Jewry reeks with such prejudice. In politics, 
education, social functions, public holidays, litera- 
ture and newspapers, they see everywhere traces of 
“Christological manifestations” and cry them down. 


28 THE INTERNATIONAL JEW 


No public man has ever given public evidence of 
his Christian faith without rebuke from the Jews. 
Mr. Bryan, Mr. Marshall, Mr. Taft, Mr. Wilson, two 
of them Presidents, one of them Vice President, and 
the other Secretary of State, have all been called 
to task from time to time for their sins in this 
respect. Mr. Marshall is a devout man, whose faith 
is real to him, and he speaks very naturally about it 
at times. He has, therefore, been attacked oftener 
in the Jewish press than has any other public man 
of recent times. Nothing is more ludicrous to the 
Jewish press than a Vice President of the United 
States openly confessing that he is an “idolator,” 
that is, a worshipper of the dead Jewish imposter 
whom the Christians ignorantly call “Christ.” To 
Mr. Marshall’s honor, be it said, he never apologized, 
he never begged to withdraw his public statements. 
Neither did William J. Bryan, whose lecture “The 
Prince of Peace” contained statements in honor of 
Christ which brought him into conflict with Jewish 
spokesmen everywhere, and whose remarks about 
missions after a trip around the world were savagely 
attacked by Jews. Mr. Bryan did not apologize 
either. Mr. Taft was promptly called down on 
several occasions for using forms of the word “Chris- 
tian,” which were particularly offensive to the Jew- 
ish press because they had advertised far and wide 
during the Taft campaign that Mr. Taft was practi- 
cally a Jew in his belief in that he had abandoned 
all the distinctive Christian doctrines pertaining to 
Christ. After his lapses in which he used the term 
“Christian” approvingly, it was explained on his 
behalf (1) that he was accommodating himself to 
the audience, and (2) that he used the term as a 
Synonym for civilization! But isn’t it significant 
that the name of Christ should be an integral part 
of the very name of the highest civilization? Mr. 
Taft was a true liberal, liberal enough to tolerate 
Christian orthodoxy. And that was a rather weak 
spot, as far as the Jews’ estimate of him went. 

Mr. Wilson, while President, was very close to 
the Jews. His administration, as everyone knows, 


ARE THE JEWS VICTIMS OR PERSECUTORS? 29 


was predominantly Jewish. As a Presbyterian elder, 
Mr. Wilson had occasional lapses into the Christian 
mode of thought during his public utterances, and 
was always checked up tight by his Jewish censors. 
In 1914, speaking before the American University 
at Washington, he said: 

“That is the reason why scholarship has usu- 
ally been most fruitful when associated with 
religion, and scholarship has never been, so far 
as I can at this moment recall, associated with 
any religion except the religion of Jesus 
Christ.” 

That was terrible. So terrible that Herman 
Bernstein was chosen to administer the castigation. 

And Mr. Wilson made proper reparation: 

“My dear Mr. Bernstein: I am sorry that 
there should have been any unfair implication 
in what I said at the opening of the American 
University. You may be sure that there was 
nothing of the kind in my mind, or very cer- 
tainly nothing in my thoughts that would dis- 
criminate in the important matter you speak of 
against Judaism. I find that one of the risks 
and penalties of extemporaneous speaking is 
that you do not stop to consider the whole field, 
but address yourself merely to the matter in 
hand. With sincere respects and appreciation, 

Cordially yuurs, 
Woodrow Wilson.” 

The heading given this notice in the Jewish 
press was, “He Did Not Mean It.” 

All of the President’s offending took place in 
1914. The second offense he gave was by taking the 
position of honorary chairman of the International 
Lord’s Day Congress, which was to be held the next 
year in connection with the Panama Exposition. It 
was, however, the Christian Sunday which received 
the bulk of the abuse on that occasion. 

The subject is “religious prejudice.” Where does 
it exist in this country in more continuous and viru- 
lent character than among the Jews? Read these 
items selected at random from Jewish papers: 


30 THE INTERNAT:ONAL JEW 


“District Grand Lodge No. 4, Independent Order 
B’nai B’rith, voted at the annual election held in San 
Francisco, March 2 (1911) to exclude from the or- 
der Jews who join the Christian Science Church. The 
body after earnest discussion decided that the por- 
tals of the order shall be closed against the Christian 
Scientist Jews on the ground that such Jews have 
abjured Judaism. The vote upon the question was 
almost unanimous.” 

“The Jewish Community at Philadelphia has : 
found it necessary to publish a warning to the Jew- 
ish people against the Daily Vacation Bible Schools 
which are being established in various parts of the 
city, also against certain missions and settlement 
houses, all of which are traps into which Jewish chil- 
dren are decoyed for the purpose of seducing them 
from the religion of their parents. These institutions 
belong to that class of conversionist agencies which 
wage a campaign for the seeking of converts through 
workers . . . (who) are a class of criminals that 
keep just within the law and deserve no better treat- 
ment than is usually accorded to people of that 
kind.” 

When a bishop of the Epiachnal Church said, 
“We must make the United States indisputably a 
Christian nation,” the Jewish press retorted that 
such a thing could not be done until the Constitu- 
tion of the United States had been “abolished.” 
“Christian America” is a persecuting term according 
to the professional Jewish spokesmen, and the most 
laborious efforts have been put forth by them to 
prove on paper that the United States is not and 
cannot be Christian. 

Not only do the Jews disagree with Christian 
teaching—which is their perfect right, and no one 
dare question it—but they seek to interfere with it. 
It is not religious tolerance in the midst of religious 
difference, but religious attack that they preach and 
practice. The whole record of the Jewish opposi- 
tion to Christmas, Easter and certain patriotic songs 
shows that. 

When Cleveland and Lakewood arranged for a 


ARE THE JEWS VICTIMS OR PERSECUTORS? 31 


community Christmas, the Cleveland Jewish press 
said: “The writer of this has no idea how many Jews 
there are in Lakewood, but if there is only one, there 
should be no community Christmas, no community 
religion of any kind.” That is not a counsel of tol- 
erance, it is a counsel of attack. The Christmas lit- 
erature of American Judaism is fiercer than the 
flames of the Inquisition. In the month of January, 
the Jewish press has urged its readers to begin an 
early campaign against Christmas celebrations the 
next Christmas—“Only three hundred and sixty 
days before Christmas. So let us do our Christmas 
arguing early and take plenty of time to do it.” 

If anything, Easter is attacked yet more bitterly. 
But we refrain, for good reasons, from repeating 
what Jews commonly say on such occasions. The 
strange inconsistency of it all is to see the great de- 
partment stores of the Levys and the Isaacs and the 
Goldsteins and the Silvermans filled with brilliant 
Christmas cheer and at Easter with the goods appro- 
priate to the time. The festivals of the “heathen” 
are very profitable. Jewish merchants have been 
chided for this—not over-severely—by certain rabbis. 
But on the whole the rabbis had better remain con- 
tent, for there are no forces more rapidly seculariz- 
ing the two festival days than are the merchandiz- 
ing and profiteering forces. 

Even religious intolerance has its gleesome mo- 
ments, and the Jews’ come whenever the:signs ap- 
pear of the greater secularization of the church. One 
parallel between the Protocols and the real hopes 
of the Jews is written in the common Jewish proph- 
ecy that Christianity is doomed to perish. It will 
perish by becoming, to all intents and purposes, 
Judaism. And it will become Judaism, first, by 
ousting all the doctrines pertaining to the person of 
Christ, excising from the Gospels the great “I Ams” 
which are His distinctive teachings concerning Him- 
self; and, second, by devitalizing Christianity of all 
the spiritual content which flows from a union by 
faith with a Person believed to be divine. That is 
the only way it can be done. There may be a union 


32 THE INTERNATIONAL JEW 


of all the churches of the Christian faith because the 
fundamentals are the same; no union of Christianity 
and Judaism can occur unless Judaism takes in 
Jesus as the Messiah, or unless Christianity ejects 
Him as the Messiah. Judaism sees the union com- 
ing by the ejection of the Lord as the Messiah, and 
rejoices at every sign of it. 

Dr. Charles F. Aked, who has since blossomed out 
as a Jewish spokesman, delivered a sermon in which 
he cast aside all the “supernatural” elements in the 
life of Christ, from His birth, to the significance of 
His death, and was hailed by the Jewish press as 
“the fulfillment of the prophecy that within fifty 
years the religion of all the American people, outside 
the Catholic Church, would be Judaism in principle 
even though not in name.” 

“No Jew,” says the American Israelite, “will con- 

ceal his gratification when he finds Christians vir- 
tually admitting that liberal Christianity is practi- 
cally an acceptance of the doctrine of liberal Juda- 
ism.” 
Unfortunately, this is true. Liberal Christianity 
and Liberal Judaism meet, but only by the surren- 
der of all that is distinctively Christian in doctrine. 
A liberal Christian is more Jewish than Christian. 
The statement may sound harsh and arouse resent- 
ment, but it is a very simple matter for any liberal 
Christian to convince himself of this by reading the 
volume of liberal Jewish doctrine put out by Kauf- 
man Kohler, president of the Hebrew Union College. 
Liberalism is the funnel by which Christianity is ex- 
pected to run into Judaism, just as liberalism so- 
called in other departments of life is expected to 
bring about certain other Jewish aims. 

“Liberalism” in Jewish thought means a wide- 
open country in every way. Judaism has opposed 
every significant reform that has come to the 
country; prohibition, Sunday decency, movie and 
stage regeneration, and community reverence for 
sacred things. Judaism has been the prop of the 
liquor traffic, Sunday desecration, movie and stage 
excesses, and public contempt for the sacred things 


ARE THE JEWS VICTIMS OR PERSECUTORS? 33 


of the prevailing religion; and it is all too evident 
that the Jewish propaganda has made serious in- 
roads everywhere. 

A Congregational Church in New Jersey decided 
to abandon the Bible in some of its classes and 
substitute sociology, politics, municipal government 
and kindred subjects for study, and the Jewish press 
hailed it as another sign that the church was “in a 
fair way to adopt what is in substance American 
Judaism.” In St. Louis a clergyman, instead of 
preaching. sermons, began to act out moralistic 
dramas which he himself had written, and the Jew- 
ish press again hailed it as a sign of the dissatis- 
faction of the Christian with his church. Everything 
done in every branch of the Christian church has 
been closely watched, and wherever a departure 
occurred from the distinctly Christian position it 
was extravagantly applauded; and wherever loyalty 
to the landmarks appeared, it was just as extrav- 
agantly condemned. Judaism does not wish the 
Christian church to remain Christian. This accounts 
for destructive Higher Criticism being almost 
exclusively the work of Jews, although the world 
has long known them under the guise of “German 
critics.” 

Jewish intolerance today, yesterday and in every 
age of history where Jews were able to exert influ- 
ence or power, is indisputable except among people 
who do not know the record. Jewish intolerance in 
the past is a matter of history; for the future it is a 
matter of Jewish prophecy. One of the strongest 
causes militating against the full Americanization 
of several millions of Jews in this country is their 
belief—instilled in them by their religious author- 
ities—that they are “chosen,” that this land is theirs, 
that the inhabitants are idolators, that the day is 
coming when the Jews will be supreme. How can 
they otherwise act than in agreement with such 
declarations? You can see what is meant if you 
read Jewish articles describing the shoving aside of 
the New England people by the Jews; the super- 
cilious attitude adopted toward the stock that made 


34 THE INTERNATIONAL JEW 


America is merely a foreshadowing of what would 
be the complete attitude if power and influence made 
it possible. Bolshevism, which began with the 
destruction of the class that contained all the 
promise of a better Russia, is an exact parallel for 
the attitude that is adopted in this country regard- 
ing the original stock: 

We are not permitted by the Jews to sing the 
“Battle Hymn of the Republic’ in our schools 
because one of the stanzas has a Christian flavor. 
The Jews claim that the presence of one Jewish 
child in an assembly of children ought in “fairness” 
to prevent the singing of that historic song. 

Norman Hapgood, writing in a Jewish publica- 
tion, said: “I need hardly explain that I do not 
think Jews ought to insist overmuch on their rights 
or nationality in a negative sense. They ought to 
be as much Jews as they can, but ought to be as 
little as possible of what is merely anti-Christian. 
For the Jews to try to get a song out of the public 
schools because it praises Jesus is perhaps natural 
but hardly wise.” Mr. Hapgood received a lot of 
abuse for his well-conceived counsel. 

Again we come to the end of our space with the 
record hardly scratched. Sufficient has been pre- 
sented to show the strong, unceasing anti-Christian 
activity of the Jews in the United States. Had the 
Jewish press been read extensively by non-Jews 
during the past 15 years, this present series of 
articles would have been unnecessary—the people 
would have known the facts. It is to present some 
of the facts that are illustrated in the Jewish press 
along the line of religious intolerance that these 
two articles have been written. 

Jewish spokesmen plead for suppression of facts 
in the name of “religious tolerance,” and they de- 
nounce exposure of the facts as being “religious . 
persecution.” Read the whole non-Jewish religious 
and secular publications and you will not find one 
one-hundred-thousandth part of the animosity 
against the Jewish religion which is found in the 
Jewish press—continuously found week after week 


ARE THE JEWS VICTIMS OR PERSECUTORS? 35 


for long years—against the Christian religion. The 
present writer has never seen nor heard of an article 
attacking the Jews’ religion. 

So, once for all, in spiking the cry of “religious 
persecution,” we show that it exists in quantity and 
strength among the Jews—nowhere else. No one 
imbued with the American spirit would or could 
condemn, hinder, or even remonstrate with any per- 
son on account of the faith he holds. 

As to “religious prejudice” or “persecution” 
entering into the present series of articles—there 
they are, reprinted in booklet form for permanent 
examination: where is the prejudice or persecution ? 
Cite the page! 

Jewish spokesmen would use their energy to 
better advantage, and more to the honor of the 
Jewish people, if they would address themselves to 
what is in the articles, rather than to what is not in 
them. The statements made by Tur Drarporn INDE- 
PENDENT have been voluminously discussed; but they 
are still awaiting an answer, 


a 





Issue of June 11, 1921. 


“This clannishness would eventually break 
down were it not for the deliberate efforts of 
Jewish leaders who are determined that Israel 
shall remain an imperium in imperio. If the 
Jews persist in maintaining a distinct ethnic 
consciousness and an exclusive community life, 
anti-Semitism will thrive in America as tt has 
thrived in Europe. The American nation, ttself 
the result of fusion, will not tolerate without 
protest a foreign element in it.” 

—Herbert Adams Gibbons in the Century, Sep- 
tember. Page 789. 


XLV. 


Jewish Gamblers Corrupt 
American Baseball 


HERE are men in the United States who say 

that baseball has received its death wound and 

is slowly dying out of the list of respectable sports. 

There are other men who say that American base- 

ball can be saved if a clean sweep is made of the 

Jewish influence which has just dragged it through 
a period of bitter shame and demoralization. 

Whether baseball as a first-class sport is killed 
and will survive only as a cheap-jack entertainment; 
or whether baseball possesses sufficient intrinsic 
character to rise in righteous wrath and cast out 
the danger that menaces it, will remain a matter of 
various opinion. But there is one certainty, namely, 
that the last and most dangerous blow dealt base- 
ball was curiously notable for its Jewish character. 

Yet only lesser Jews were indicted. Inevitably 
the names of other Jews appeared in the press ac- 
counts, and people wondered who they were. A 
Jewish judge presided. Jewish lawyers were promi- 
nent on both sides of the cases. Numerous strange 
things occurred. 

But strangest of all is the fact that although 
American fans felt that something epochal had hap- 
pened in baseball, few really know what it is. 

There has been time enough for others to tell the 
truth if they were so disposed. Many sport editors 
have come as near telling it as their newspapers 
would permit them. But it becomes daily more evi- 
dent that if the whole matter is to be laid bare, so 
that Americans may know where to look for danger, 
THE DEARBORN INDEPENDENT will have to do it. 

And this is not of our own choosing. Baseball 
is a trivial matter compared with some of the facts 
that are awaiting publication. Yet it is possible to 
see the operation of the Jewish Idea in baseball as 


38 THE INTERNATIONAL JEW 


clearly as in any other field. The process is the 
same, whether in war or politics, in finance or in 
sports. 

To begin with, Jews are not sportsmen. This is 
not set down in complaint against them, but merely 
as analysis. It may be a defect in their character, 
or it may not; it is nevertheless a fact which dis- 
criminating Jews unhesitatingly acknowledge. 
Whether this is due to their physical lethargy, their 
dislike of unnecessary physical action, or their seri- 
ous cast of mind, others may decide; the Jew is not 
naturally an out-of-door sportsman; if he takes up 
golf it is because his station in society calls for it, 
not that he really likes it; and if he goes in for col- 
legiate athletics, as some of the younger Jews are 
doing, it is because so much attention has been 
called to their neglect of the sports that the younger 
generation thinks it necessary to remove that occa- 
sion of remark. 

And yet, the bane of American sports today is: 
the presence of a certain type of Jew, not as a par- 
ticipant but as an exploiter and corrupter. If he 
had been a sportsman for the love of sport he might 
have been saved from becoming an exploiter and 
corrupter, for there is no mind to which the cor- 
rupting of a sport is more illogical and even unex- 
plainable than the mind of the man who partici- 
pates in it. 

There will be a very full case made out in justifi- 
cation of the use of the above terms “exploiter” and 
“corrupter” with regard to baseball. But it would 
be just as easy to make out the same sort of case 
with regard to wrestling and horse-racing. Wres- 
tling is so completely ruled by Jews as to have be- 
come an outlawed sport. The story of wrestling is 
not only the story of the demoralization of a sport, 
but also the story of the wholesale bunkoing of the 
public. 

The same is true of horse-racing. The whole at- 
mosphere of this sport has been tinged with dis- 
honesty. The horses remain almost the only well- 
bred creatures connected with it. Yet why should 


JEWISH GAMBLERS CORRUPT AMERICAN BASEBALL 39 


the art of breeding and training and testing fine 
horses be debasing? Only because a certain class 
saw in it a chance to play upon the weaknesses of 
men for the sake of gain. 

That, indeed, explains the presence of the Jew 
in modern sports and it also explains why the Jew: 
ish Idea in sport, instead of being preservative, is 
corruptive. The Jew saw money where the sports- 
man saw fun and skill. The Jew set out to capital- 
ize rivalry and to commercialize contestant zeal. 

This is not necessarily the only course the Jew 
could have taken with regard to sports, but it is the 
course that he most notably has taken, and as scan- 
dal follows scandal it would seem to be high time 
that organized Jewry should undertake to control 
or repudiate those Jews who have been most instru- 
mental in corrupting and nearly destroying our 
cleanest, most manly public sports. 

It is worth noting that in Chicago, where the 
Jewish Anti-Defamation League has its headquar- 
ters, there was not a word of reproof sent out from 
Jews to the Jewish culprits, chiding them for their 
activities. Not a word. But at the same time the 
pressure of the Anti-Defamation League was heavy 
on the whole American newspaper press to prevent 
the public statement that the whole baseball scandal 
was a Jewish performance from end to end. 

Baseball had a close call for its life back in 
1875. Rowdyism, gambling, drinking and general 
disorderliness on the baseball fields brought the 
sport very low in public estimation, so low that at- 
tendance at the games fell heavily. 

In this year 1921 there is another public rebuke 
being administered baseball by the same means—a 
very heavy reduction of public support in attend- 
ance at the games. 

The storm began to be heard as far back as 1919. 
The Cincinnati Nationals had defeated the Chicago 
Americans in the World Series of that year, and 
immediately thereafter the country became a whis- 
pering gallery wherein were heard mysterious ru- 
mors of crooked dealing. The names of Jews were 


40 THE INTERNATIONAL JEW 


heard then, but it meant nothing to the average 
man. ‘The rumors dealt with shady financial gains 
for a number of Jew gamblers of decidedly shady 
reputation. | 

But “they got away with it,” in the parlance of 
the field. There was not enough public indignation 
to force a show-down, and too many interests were 
involved to prevent baseball being given a black eye 
in full view of an adoring public. 

However, not everyone forgot the incident. 
Some who had the interest of honest sport at heart, 
and a regard for facts as well, kept on the trail— 
long after the trail grew cold, long after the prin- 
cipal wrongdoers forgot their early caution. Where 
money had once been taken successfully, the gang 
would be sure to return. 

Time went on until the 1920 season began to 
wane. One day when the Chicago and Philadelphia 
National League teams were engaged in a series at 
Chicago, strange messages began to reach the office 
of the Chicago club. The messages were dated from 
Detroit and informed the Chicago club and man- 
agement that several “well-known” Jews were bet- 
ting heavily’ on Philadelphia. The bets involved 
large sums of money, and as the contest was only 
the ordinary run of daily game, not an important 
contest at all, the unusual interest of Jewish plung- 
ers attracted attention. At the same time it was 
observed that money began rolling into the pool 
rooms on Philadelphia. 

Chicago club officials called a hasty conference 
on receipt of the messages. They called in Grover 
Cleveland Alexander, explained the situation to him, 
and told him it was up to him to save the game. It 
was not Alexander’s turn to pitch, Claude R. Hen- 
dryx having been chosen for that day; neither was 
Alexander in training to pitch that day. However, he 
did go to the box, and although he hurled his heart 
out to beat Philadelphia and thwart the Jew gam- 
blers, he failed. 

Then came the big scandal. A Cook County 
grand jury was called into session at Chicago and 


JEWISH GAMBLERS CORRUPT AMERICAN BASEBALL 41 


asked to investigate. When this grand jury had 
completed its labors, eight members of the Chicago © 
American League team were under indictment for 
throwing the World Series of 1919, the previous 
year, to the Cincinnati Reds. And all along the 
line of the investigation the names of Jews were 
plentifully sprinkled. 

It was discovered that the indictments brought 
by the first grand jury were faulty; a second one 
was called and it was under the second group of 
indictments that the famous trial at Chicago was 
held. 

One difference in the work of the two grand 
juries was that the second indicted five Jews who 
had escaped the first one. Two of these men were 
Carl Zork and Benny Franklin, who were just as 
much implicated at the time of the first grand jury 
as the second, but the prosecutor’s office did not try 
to secure their indictment. Why? Because Rep- 
logle, the attorney representing the prosecution, 
said there were enough men indicted without Zork 
and Franklin. These two St. Louis Jews were rep- 
resented by Alfred S. Austrian, a Jewish lawyer, of 
Chicago. 

This second grand jury also indicted Ben and 
Louis Levi and their brother-in-law, D. A. Zelser, 
gamblers from Des Moines. Their indictment was 
not secured at the first grand jury investigation di- 
rected by Replogle, assistant to Hoyne, who was 
then acting for the state of Illinois. Between the 
first and second grand juries a political change had 
occurred, and the public interests in the second 
grand jury were in the care of a new prosecuting 
attorney, Robert Crowe, a former judge. 

It becomes necessary at this point in the narra- 
tive to give a brief “Who’s Who” of the baseball 
scandal, omitting from the list the names of the 
baseball players, who are sufficiently known to the 
public. This list will comprise only those who have 
been in the background of baseball and whom it is 
necessary to know in order to understand what has 
been happening behind the scenes in recent years. 


42 THE INTERNATIONAL JEW 


For the first name let us take Albert D. Lasker. 
He is a member of the American Jewish Committee, 
was recently appointed by President Harding to be 
chairman of the United States Shipping Board, and 
is known as the author of the “Lasker: Plan,” a 
widely heralded plan for the reorganization of base- 
ball, which practically took the sport out of non- 
Jewish control. He is reputed to be the second 
richest Jew in Chicago and was head of the adver- 
tising agency which became famous under the Gen- 
tile names of Lord & Thomas. Moreover he is a 
heavy stockholder in the Chicago Cubs—the Chicago 
Nationals. 

The so-called “Lasker Plan” has been attributed 
to Mr. Lasker, although it is not here intimated that 
he has specifically claimed to be its originator. The 
intimation is not made for the reason that to do so 
might be putting Mr. Lasker in the position of claim- 
ing what is not true. Until he makes the claim, the 
term “Lasker Plan” must remain merely a designa- 
tion, and not a description of its origin. 

This matter brings us to the name of Alfred S. 
Austrian, a Jewish lawyer of Chicago, who is a 
warm friend both of Mr. Lasker and of the Replogle 
aforementioned. It is said that Mr. Austrian was 
really the originator of the “Lasker Plan” which for 
certain reasons was handed to Mr. Lasker, who was 
not averse to publicity and who knew the art of 
self-advertising. Now, it appears that Austrian was 
also the legal representative of Charles A. Comiskey, 
owner of the Chicago Americans, and that he was 
also, if he is not now, the legal adviser of William 
Veeck, president of the Chicago National League 
Club, in which it has just been said that Lasker is 
a heavy stockholder. It was this club which was 
touched by the questionable game of August, 1920, 
and which afterward released Hendryx, the pitcher 
chosen for and withdrawn from that game. The 
Chicago National League Club has never explained 
why it released Hendryx and he has never demand- 
ed redress. 

Mr. Austrian’s further activities will appear 


JEWISH GAMBLERS CORRUPT AMERICAN BASEBALL 43 


when the narrative of the investigation and trial 
is resumed. 

Then there is Arnold Rothstein, a Jew, who de- 
scribes himself as being in the real estate business 
but who is known to be a wealthy gambler, owner 
of a notorious gambling house at Saratoga, a race 
track owner, and is reputed to be financially inter- 
ested in the New York National League Club. 

Rothstein was usually referred to during the 
baseball scandal as “the man higher up.” It is 
stated that in some manner unknown he received 
the secret testimony given before the grand jury 
and offered it to a New York newspaper. However, 
the fact is this: the grand jury testimony disap- 
peared from the prosecuting attorney’s safe-keeping. 
It is stated that, when Rothstein found out it did 
not incriminate him, he then offered it for publicity 
purposes. The price which it is said to have cost is 
also stated. It is further stated that the New York 
paper to whom the secret stolen testimony was of- 
fered, in turn offered its use for a larger sum to a 
Chicago newspaper, and that the Chicago newspaper, 
to protect itself, called up Robert Crowe, the new 
prosecutor, who advised that, in printing it, the 
newspaper would incur an unpleasant risk. Other 
Chicago editors were warned, and the testimony 
was not printed. Even the New York newspaper 
thought better of it, and did not print it. 

In this connection, Rothstein threatened suit 
against Ban Johnson, of the National Commission, 
the big-bodied, big-minded, honest director and pro- 
tector of straight baseball—but the suit, like others 
of the kind, has not been brought. 

Rothstein is known on Broadway as “a slick 
Jew.” That he is powerful with the authorities has 
been often demonstrated. His operations on the 
turf have led to suggestions that he be ruled off. 

Alfred S. Austrian, hereinbefore mentioned, was 
the legal adviser of Rothstein during the baseball 
scandal. 

Hugh 8. Fullerton, the able sport writer of the 
New York Lvening Mail, writing on July 28, 1921, 


44 THE INTERNATIONAL JEW 


made a plea that “a person guilty of crooked work 
on a race track should be expelled not only from the 
race track but from ball parks, tennis courts, foot- 
ball fields and every place else where sport is pro- 
moted. These sport spoilers must be barred from 
every sport.” 

And in the same paper, referring specifically to 
Rothstein, Mr. Fullerton writes: 

“There is in New York a gambler named Roth- 
stein who is much feared and much accused. His 
name has been used in connection with almost every 
big thieving, crooked deal on the race track, and he 
is openly named in this baseball scandal. There 
has been no legal proof advanced against him be- 
yond the fact that he is the only man in the entire 
crowd who had money enough to handle such a deal. 
At least $200,000 was used in actual cash, and no 
one concerned could command that much money ex: 
cepting Rothstein, who is either the vilest crook or 
the most abused man in America. 

“Rothstein sits in the box with the owner of the 
_ New York Giants. He has the entrée to the exclu- 
sive clubhouses on race tracks; he is prominent at 
fights.” 

Then, after naming Abe Attell and Bennie Kauff, 
who also enjoy exceptional privileges around the 
New York club, Mr. Fullerton makes his plea for 
the exclusion of “sport spoilers” from every ground 
where sport is promoted. 

Then there is Charles -A. Comiskey, who is one 
of the most impressive examples in the country to- 
day of a good Irishman being entirely eclipsed by 
a Jew. Comiskey was one of the staunchest support- 
ers of honest baseball in this country and he gave 
great assistance in erecting the major league game 
to the position it occupied just before the scandal. 
He used his best endeavors, also, to get the truth 
about the “throwing” of the World Series by his 
men. But his efforts were thwarted and even he, 
perhaps, has not the ghost of a suspicion how it 
was done. 

So that, instead of Mr. Comiskey, we look at the 


JEWISH GAMBLERS CORRUPT AMERICAN BASEBALL 45 


Jew behind him who is Harry Grabiner. With Co- 
miskey in failing health, Grabiner is in charge at 
Comiskey Park. More than that, he appears to be 
in charge of Comiskey himself, preventing him from 
making public statements and otherwise dictating 
to him—pushing himself forward in a manner that 
-has indelibly and unpleasantly impressed nearly 
every sport writer in America. 

Chicago’s support of the White Sox began to 
slump even before the scandal and it was helped on 
by the nnpopularity of Grabiner’s methods which 
were wholly characteristic of what the Americanized 
Jew calls the “kikes.” As secretary of the club, 
Grabiner has grabbed the headship, and if Comis- 
key had power enough to unseat him he would do 
more than the courts have done to purge the White 
Sox from its most serious remaining blemish. 

There are shady spots at Chicago that neither 
the grand jury nor the court trial brought out, one 
of which is now related: 

At all ball parks in the American League, and in 
the National, for that matter, officials of the “home 
club”—that is, of the club in whose home city the 
game is being played—“take the gate.” ‘To “take the 
gate” is to collect the tickets and render a report of 
the attendance. Tickets are designed and numbered 
for the different gates—box gate, pass gate, grand 
stand gate, bleacher gate, and the rest. The accounts 
are made up showing the number of people who 
passed through each gate. When all the reports 
are in, it can be seen at a glance what the paid 
attendance is, and the shares of the contesting 
clubs. 

In former times it was the custom for the visit- 
ing club to assign a secretary to watch the gates 
and thus insure an honest count, but years ago the 
“honor system” was adopted, leaving the entire 
accounting to the “home club,” and this “honor 
system” was strictly observed. No one suspected 
cheating. The count was made during the sixth and 
seventh innings of each day’s game, the officials of 
the home club visiting all the gates, taking the turn- 


46 THE INTERNATIONAL JEW 


stile count, and making the record. Three slips were 
then prepared showing the home club’s share, the 
visiting club’s share and the grand total. 

Under Grabiner’s régime the “honor system” as 
practiced at the Chicago park began to be suspected. 
It began to be mysteriously suggested that visiting 
teams were not getting their full share. Through a 
system of false accounting, it was said, money was 
being held out. Naturally, with all the other secret 
investigations that were proceeding in baseball, this 
clue was not left untouched. Detectives were hired. 
Watchers were stationed. Secret counts were made. 
Not only one club nor only two clubs adopted secret 
methods of finding out what was occurring under 
Grabiner’s secretaryship. They discovered that the 
“honor system” was not in vogue at that park. Their 
suspicions were confirmed, the mysterious rumors 
were verified. It would probably be highly objection- 
able to pro-Jewish persons to mention the Jewish 
management with these methods—but there are the 
facts. 

The White Sox of Comiskey’s palmy days have 
certainly ridden to a sorry finish under the Jewish 
control that has been foisted upon it. And it is 
typical; for there is no surer clue by which to trace 
a certain type of Jew than by the near certainty that 
even with honest money rolling in upon him, he 
will try to increase the flow by petty dishonesty 
which, once discovered, declasses him forever. It 
is typical. There is a lure in trickery that appeals 
to some men more than sound and satisfying achieve- 
ment does. Think of a world-famous baseball club 
allowing a system that cheated the guest club of a 
few hundred admission fees! 

Then next in this gallery of notables in the back- 
ground of baseball is the Jew gambler, Abe Attell, 
whose connection with sports has been of a question- 
able character ever since his dethronement from his 
pugilistic pedestal. Attell is known as the “king 
bee” of the scheme to “throw the games” in the 
World Series. He knows all about underhanded 
“throwing” of contests, because he has “thrown” his 


JEWISH GAMBLERS CORRUPT AMERICAN BASEBALL 47 


own fights, now feigning to be beaten when it in- 
volved gambling bets and easily winning when the 
same reasons prompted. Attell is of such a charac. 
ter that he ought to be barred from the grounds of 
any sport, as Mr. Fullerton suggests. He is the 
Morris Gest of sport, without Gest’s success. All 
the players named Attell as the “fixer.” Even Roth- 
stein named Attell as the “fixer.” It seemed unan- 
imous—with perhaps Attell’s own consent—that he 
should be regarded as the “fixer”: it made it so much 
more comfortable for others. Attell went so far as 
to say that he approached Rothstein with the propo- 
sition to raise a pool to bribe the players to “throw 
the games,” but Rothstein declined. And yet Ma- 
harg, another Jew, whose name spelled backward 
is “Graham,” says that a telegram came through 
signed “A. R.” which promised $20,000. The “A. R.” 
was supposed by some to mean Arnold Rothstein, but 
others say he is too shrewd even to sign his initials. 
However, it was asserted that 10 gamblers, all Jews, 
cleaned up $250,000 on the games and that nearly as 
much money was used to manage it. 

Attell was the “goat,” the unanimity being rather 
startling. It has been known, of course, that men 
have been so deep in sin that they have been chosen 
to bear the sins also of their friends on promise 
that “influence” would be exerted, or on threat that 
if they didn’t stand as “goat” certain past indiscre- 
tions would be advertised. Whatever Attell’s case 
might have been, he stood the gaff. 

Attell told the ball players that Rothstein was 
putting up the money. 

And Attell was never brought to book. It was 
even testified that Abe Attell was not Abe Attell at 
all. Certain moneys lost in a bet had been repaid 
and the expected testimony in a certain matter 
turned out to be other than was expected. Attell 
was held in New York for an extradition hearing. 
Sammy Pass, a Jew, was one of the witnesses. So 
was Johnny Seys. The hearing resulted in New 
York refusing the extradition of Abe Attell. 

Then came the Dempsey-Carpentier fight, in Jer- 


48 THE INTERNATIONAL JEW 


sey, which Abe Attell attended. Chicago officers 
were in attendance, too, with extradition papers 
signed by the governor of New Jersey. They intend- 
ed to take Attell back with them, though without 
passing through New York. Attell attended the 
fight, but the underground wires, so active in this 
entire case, were working, and- Attell eluded the 
western officers. 

The next name in the roster will be that of 
Barney Dreyfuss, a Jew, owner of the Pittsburgh 
National League Club. Mr. Dreyfuss appeared in 
the public eye during the conduct of the grand jury 
inquiry into the shady games, with an insistent 
demand that the National Commission, the ruling 
body in baseball, of which Ban B. Johnson is the 
acknowledged leader, should be abolished, and an- 
other plan, the “Lasker Plan,” substituted. It was 
intended to discredit the National Commission under 
cover of the rottenness that had been discovered 
between the Jew gamblers and the venial Chicago 
players. It was primarily an anti-Johnson move 
and nothing else, and it was led by a Jew whose 
principal followers were the rapidly increasing 
group of Jewish controllers of American baseball. 
What they have against Ban B. Johnson, impartial 
investigators have been unable to discover. Mr. 
Johnson’s chief characteristic, with reference to the 
Jewish side, has been his implacable enmity to 
crookedness of any kind. That ought not to be a dis- 
qualification if baseball is to be saved. Yet the Jew- 
conceived, Jew-named and Jew-advocated “Lasker 
Plan” won out. 

Carl Zork, the St. Louis Jew who was indicted, 
is variously described as a shirt-maker and a silk- 
broker. There are no variations, however, in his 
description as a gambler. He is part of the Jewish 
national net of gamblers which acts nationally and 
makes “killings” on a national scale. 

It should be observed that the principal Jewish 
abuses are nation-wide. This was shown in the 
United States Government’s investigation of the 
white slave traffic; the bootlegging business is 


JEWISH GAMBLERS CORRUPT AMERICAN BASEBALL 49 


nation-wide; so is race-track gambling; baseball 
pools also are a national network for the catching 
of “suckers.” There is, therefore, nothing unusual 
that a shirt-maker from St. Louis and a horse-trader 
from East St. Louis, and a bootlegger from Albany 
—together with clever high-ups and hopelessly de- 
classed low-downs—should all be involved in a base- 
ball scandal that breaks in Chicago. They are all 
really part of a national group. 

Carl Zork, for example, staged the fight between 
Attell and a third-class boxer in which Attell 
welched in the sixth round in order to “throw” the 
fight, because his friends had all bet on the third- 
rate man, getting tremendous odds. His friends 
‘would never have made the bet, or having made it 
could never have won it, without Attell’s deliberate 
quitting and feigned whimpering. It was one of the 
rawest of many raw deals witnessed in Jew-con- 
trolled sports, but Attell is that kind of man. He 
is a servant for that kind of scheme. It was not by 
accident that Zork, the silk-broker, and Attell, an 
ex-prize fighter, should be linked together in the 
baseball scandal. They had been linked in crooked 
work before. They are part of the national machin- 
ery organized and operated for the purpose of sep- 
arating “Gentile boobs” from their money. 

If there were no “Gentile boobs,” or if the ‘“Gen- 
tile boob” would only take a square look at the man 
behind the nation-wide spider web, the gamblers and 
the Jewish sport purveyors would be in another 
kind of business, with perhaps less money to flaunt 
in the faces of honest people. 

If fans wish to know the trouble with American 
baseball, they have it in three words—too much Jew. 
Gentiles may rant out their parrot-like pro-Jewish 
propaganda, the fact is that a sport is clean and 
helpful until it begins to attract Jewish investors 
and exploiters and then it goes bad. The two facts 
have occurred in pairs too frequently and under 
too many dissimilar circumstances to have their re- 
lationship doubted. 

When you contrast the grand stands full of Amer- 


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icans supposing they are witnessing “the only clean 
sport,” with the sinister groups playing with the 
players and the managers to introduce a serpent’s 
trail of unnecessary crookedness, you get a contrast 
that is rather startling. And the sinister influence 
is Jewish. So patent was this that even newspapers 
could not cover the facts this time. 

Years before this public scandal broke, involving 
a whole team, it was noticed that certain Jewish 
gamblers formed the habit of rooming with certain 
baseball players. It worried the managers. The 
fact that the gamblers coddled in among the play- 
ers was fraught with a suggestion of disturbing 
unusualness. Managers tried the experiment of 
trading such players—getting them out of their ~ 
teams as quickly as possible. However, the snug- 
gling game was continued until it honey-combed the 
whole of baseball, with the result that it was with 
no trepidation at all that the Jewish gamblers could 
walk up and suggest to players that a game be 
thrown for a price. The occurrence which formed 
the basis of the investigation was not the first of 
the kind—far from it; the approach of the gamblers 
was too easy, the reception given them by the play- 
ers was too casual, to warrant that view. Nor were 
the men whose names were given to the public the 
only men involved. 

The only fact of value brought out of all the 
trouble is that American baseball has passed into 
the hands of the Jews. If it is to be saved, it must 
be taken out of their hands until they have shown 
themselves capable of promoting sports for sports’ 
sake. If it is not taken out of their hands, let it be 
widely announced that baseball is another Jewish 
monopoly, and that its patrons may know what to 
expect. 


Issue of September 3, 1921. 


XLVI. 


Jewish Degradation of American 
Baseball 


VERY non-Jewish baseball manager in the 
United States lives between two fears, and they 

are both describable in the Biblical term “the fear 
of the Jews.” The first fear concerns what the Jews 
are doing to baseball; the second fear concerns what 
the Jew would do to the manager if he complained 
about it. Hence, in spite of the fact that the 
rowdyism that has afflicted baseball, especially in the 
Kast, is all of Jewish origin—the razzing of umpires, 
hurling of bottles, ceaseless shouting of profane in- 
sults; in spite of the fact that the loyalty of players 
had to be constantly guarded because of the tendency 
of individual Jewish gamblers to snuggle up to 
individual players; in spite of the evidence that even 
the gate receipts have been tampered with—the 
managers and secretaries of baseball clubs have 
been obliged to keep their mouths closed. Through 
fear they have not daréd say what they know. As 
one manager said, “Good God, man, they’d boycott 
my park if I told you!” 

This in free America, and in the “cleanest game”! 
It is time for baseball fans to begin to look round. 

Incidentally, the fans have been looking round. 
The fans know. -If managers only knew how much 
the fans have observed, they might feel more cer. 
tain of support in the event of a move toward a 
clean-up. 

All that a Jew needs to make him eligible t« 
baseball or any other sport on the same terms with 
other people, is to develop a sportsman’s spirit. 
The Jew has crowded into all the lucrative sports, 
but only on the commercial side of them, seldom if 
ever in sympathy with the sport as a real sportsman. 
The Jews referred to as gamblers in these articles 
are not really gamblers: they take no chances; they 


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are not sportsmen enough to gamble; they are “sure 
thing” men. The “Gentile boobs” who walk into 
their traps are the people who provide the money. 
Even in the field of money, the Jew is not a sport— 
he is a gangster, ringing a gang of his ilk around his 
victims with as much system as a storekeeper sup- 
plies clerks and delivery boys. 

Lately the Jews have been endeavoring to prove 
that they are sports. Venial sport editors are some- 
times induced to write certain laudatory articles 
along that line, and frequently the name of Benny 
Leonard is used—Benny Leonard, the light-weight 
fighter. Benny forms an instructive illustration 
just along this line. Benny declares that he went 
into the ring without a scar and that he will leave 
the ring without a scar. Why? Because he will 
let no one hit him. . He will go a long way to avoid 
pain. 

The true wrestler risks and often suffers physical 
pain. So does the true ring fighter. But it is a 
Jewish characteristic to avoid, if possible, the pain 
of contest, just as it is a characteristic to avoid 
unnecessary effort. | 

Look at the other light-weight champions and 
fighters. Kid Lavinge carries scars; his hearing is 
affected by the blows he took. Battling Nelson was 
was so badly shattered by his fights that operations 
were necessary. Ad Wolgast, as a result of the 
honest straight fighting he endured, went into a sana- 
torium. Imagine Willie Ritchie and Freddie Welsh 
boasting that they never took a blow!: But Benny 
Leonard is still unscarred. It may be boxing, but 
it is not fighting. 

Wrestling is so tightly controlled by Jewish 
managers, that a real wrestler is absolutely barred 
out, for fear he will be able to show that the handful 
of wrestlers hired by the Jewish trust are not 
wrestlers at all, but only impositions on the good 
nature of the public. In order that the statement 
just made may not be misunderstood, it is repeated : 
the wrestling game at present is like the chariot 
race in a circus—the performers are hired men and 


JEWISH DEGRADATION OF AMERICAN BASEBALL _ 33 


the race is only a sham. The Jewish controllers of 
wrestling will not permit a real wrestler to appear 
—indeed, they go to infinite pains to bar him out— 
because a real wrestler would immediately show up 
the game. Wrestling is as much a Jewish business, 
controlled in‘its every part, as the manufacture of 
clothing, and its hirelings are mostly Gentiles. 

That is what baseball was coming to. The whole 
sport was getting down to an “exhibition game” 
status. The overtone of “money, money, money” 
grew louder and louder. The sport aspect of the 
game was beginning to give way to the “show” 
aspect. There were numerous signs that an attempt 
was being made to “star” certain persons, to run 
“headliners,” and to pull off a game with a sensa- 
tional ending—just like a ballet is staged, or a 
pageant. Thrills were being offered—not as the 
give and take of the game, the accident of tensest 
action, but as practiced acting. 

That is, baseball was slowly being brought under 
the level of the box-office idea. 

There were forces against this metamorphosis of 
the game. Certain men saw what was coming. 
There were also forces favoring the change, and 
wanting it to come. Curiously enough, the forces 
that favored turning baseball into afternoon vaude- 
ville were Jews, and those who favored keeping the 
game as part of American outdoor sports were non- 
Jews. 

There was more involved in that Chicago trial 
—that curious medley of Jewish defendants, wit- 
nesses, lawyers and judge—than the mere trial of 
baseball players accused of unlawfully taking money. 

The players were the “Gentile boobs.” The play- 
ers were not a whit different than a candidate for 
the United States Senate who plays the game ac- 
cording to the Jewish method. Every player on trial 
was there because he had listened to the suggestions 
of a Jew. The Jews who made the suggestions were 
not on trial. Some of them were not even indicted. 
Some who were called before the grand jury were 
not required to testify. Others who were indicted 


54 THE INTERNATIONAL JEW 


were acquitted. The spotlight of the whole scandal 
was centered on the non-Jewish players who were 
pushed out in front to do the job and who were 
known to any number of Jewish witnesses as hav- 
ing been mixed up in whatever shady work there 
may have been. The “Gentile boobs” had no wit- 
nesses; the Jews had all of them. 

This is not a whitewash for the players. They 
deserved all they got for mixing up with the low 
hangers-on; but they did not deserve it alone. Had 
they been half men there would have been a few 
Jewish gamblers cured for life of the little habit 
of approaching ball players with a shady proposi- 
tion. The players are Jewish dupes. To be such 
a dupe is punishment enough. 

It would be erroneous, however, to hold the opin- 
ion that corruption in baseball began with the mat- 
ter which was aired in court. Reference was made 
at the beginning of this article to the fear which the 
managers feel. This fear is of long standing. The 
managers had observed certain manifestations of 
evil years before. They had heard rumors which 
they did not repeat to their closest friends. They 
had started quiet investigations, the results of which 
they did not reveal even to their partners in the 
clubs. Everybody acquainted with the true situation. 
lived in deathly fear of emitting a whisper that 
might give a clue to the truth. But the truth is 
stronger than walls and doors and steel vaults— 
the truth was known at every stage of the game, by 
somebody. 

Fans may recall that several years ago one of 
the eastern teams began to get rid of most of its 
men. It was a strange proceeding and occasioned 
much discussion. The sport pages speculated about 
it and the “wise” ones doped out plausible or fan- 
tastic explanations. The true explanation has never 
yet been given, and it is this: the manager of that 
club had seen certain things in the World Series of 
that year which turned him cold. He knew that he 
saw them; morally ke was convinced that something 
was wrong; he exhausted every available method to 


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get at the truth, and failed; so, unable to bring the 
men to public punishment, he simply got rid of 
them one by one, and the next season he had prac- 
tically “rebuilt” his team. That was not more than 
ten and not less than five years before the 1919 
World Series which formed the basis of the Chicago 
scandal. 

It may be stated also that this which follows is 
the consensus of Jewish opinion as regards base- 
ball: “You can’t kill baseball as a business. It will 
always draw a gang on an afternoon, particularly 
a Sunday afternoon. It can be ‘pepped’ up and 
‘jazzed’ up in a way that will make it quite a show.” 

The Jews are probably right, that baseball can- 
not be killed as a business. But it can be killed as a 
sport. And the American baseball fans who value 
the game as a sport should wish its utter destruction 
rather than consent that it become a rendezvous for 
the gangs that now fill the Jew-controlled burlesque 
houses. Baseball as a business will become a danger 
in American life, a mob-center, a hang-out of the 
disorderly and criminal classes. 

There is another peculiar Jewish story regarding 
baseball which has not been told and it necessarily 
brings in the name of Judge Landis, of Chicago, an 
upright man with a wise head, whom the Jews would 
better not try to fool. 

When the story is told, however, even the Jews 
will agree that Judge Landis is too shrewd for them. 

Before the baseball scandal the situation was 
this: Ban Johnson was the head of organized base- 
ball, through the National Commission. He had 
brought the sport from a minor place to its position 
as the national game. Ban Johnson was something 
of an autocrat, as all leaders must be, because as old 
General Booth of the Salvation Army said: “If the 
Children of Israel had been managed by a commit- 
tee, they never could have crossed the Red Sea.” 
Autocracy has its uses, especially in striking out new 
lines. Ban Johnson used his power for baseball, 
not for personal aggrandizement. He saw the game 
grow great, he wanted it kept clean. In his efforts 


56 THE INTERNATIONAL JEW 


to keep it clean, he made certain enemies. One of 
those enemies, the Jewish owner of a baseball club, 
threatened to “get Johnson.” As far as the National 
Commission as the head of organized baseball is con- 
cerned, they did “get” him. But so far as his pres- 
tige is concerned, so far as his character and reputa- 
tion are concerned, they did not “get” him. 

Judge Landis was a fan. That is, he was a fan, 
besides being a learned and rather strict judge. 
Judge Landis was one of the few judges who did 
not quail before Chicago meat packers and Jewish 
bootleggers. Judge Landis always went the limit 
on the numerous cases of Jewish business crooked- 
ness that came before him—“blue sky” investment 
companies, and the like. He was at least one judge 
who tried Jew and Gentile alike and whose im- 
partiality and fearless righteousness no one doubted. 

Judge Landis was a rather uncomfortable man 
to have on the bench in Chicago.. 

Moreover he was a comparatively poor man. The 
United States pays its judges only $7,500 a year. 
That is less than $150 a week, comparatively little 
on which to live as a Federal judge must live. Yet 
Judge Landis lived in a modest house and within 
his income. And no one ever dared tamper with — 
him. An honest judge on the bench, a frugal man 
outside. 

And he was a fan! 

Now, while Ban Johnson was doing his best for 
baseball, and while Judge Landis was seeing a game 
as often as his duties permitted, certain others 
were viewing the situation. One of them was Alfred 
S. Austrian, the Jewish lawyer referred to in the 
last article, attorney for several ball clubs, friend 
of Replogle and Lasker, attorney for Rothstein the 
gambler and several others. Barney Dreyfuss, the 
Jewish owner of the Pittsburgh Club, was on the 
trail of Johnson, on persistent enmity. The Jewish 
coterie in Chicago and the Jewish influence through- 
out American baseball looked at Johnson and they 
looked at Judge Landis. 

Then the great idea broke! If at one stroke they 


JEWISH DEGRADATION OF AMERICAN BASEBALL 57 


could rid baseball of Johnson and rid the bench of 
Landis, what a good job that would be. 

Both these men were dangerous to Jews—not 
that they intended to be, not that they were con- 
sciously so—and it would be desirable to remove 
both from the spheres of their activity. 

Then it was that the Jew lawyer, Austrian, came 
forth with the “Lasker Plan,” named for his Jewish 
friend Lasker, member of the American Jewish Com- 
mittee, head of Lord & Thomas (Gentile names) and 
Chairman of the United States Shipping Board. 

The “Lasker Plan” proposed that the National 
Commission with ‘Ban Johnson be superseded by a 
one-man government, that one man to be selected 
from outside both leagues. 

The proposal was not an immediate success. 
Even the National League was in no hurry to obey 
this suggestion against Johnson. Indeed, there was 
so much hesitancy on the part of the Nationals in 
which the Jewish colleagues expected to find their 
best support, that the trump card was played. 

What was that trump card? It is said to be the 
secret testimony of the grand jury before which Ban 
Johnson was glad to appear as a witness to tell the 
jury everything it would need for a proper prosecu- 
tion of its inquiry, and before which Alfred S. Aus- 
trian also appeared to save some of his clients from 
the consequences of such testimony. The report is 
that Austrian was able to reproduce at the National 
League meeting the secret testimony which Ban 
Johnson had given before the grand jury, and by 
that means swing the Nationals against Johnson and 
in favor of the “Lasker Plan,” because in the grand 
jury room Johnson told the truth about certain 
elements in baseball, which was held to reflect on 
National League members. What those elements 
are may be gathered from a survey of the people who 
were interested in “getting” Johnson. Johnson is 
anything but anti-Semitic. He probably has never 
stopped to think about such a thing. He has never 
been known to attack Jews as Jews. But he has 
stood for straight baseball, and for so standing he 


58 THE INTERNATIONAL JEW 


has won the enmity of the Jews in baseball. These 
facts are sufficient to justify a conclusion. 

So, with Johnson left to head only the American 
League and not both leagues, the next task was to 
select the new autocrat of baseball. Not a commis- 
Sion this time, but one man! With all his power, 
Johnson was never more than one of a commission ; 
but the “Lasker Plan” disposes of such safeguards 
and leaves the whole authority in one man’s hands. 
It will be interesting to see who becomes the second 
incumbent of that office, if indeed the ‘Lasker Plan” 
lasts long enough to warrant a second autocrat. 

Gentle reader, do you suppose for a moment 
that the Jews who opposed Johnson did not know 
who the new leader would be? Ah, well they knew! 
He was to be a man outside both leagues. And he 
was to be a man whom the Jews would just as soon 
have off the bench as on it. He was, indeed, none 
other than Judge Landis, who can be trusted to see 
through a trick as far as any other living man. 

Of course, he would accept a $42,500 job, he who 
was receiving only $7,500 a year! And, of course, 
he would resign from the bench!—thus the coterie 
reasoned. 

They trooped over to the court to interview the 
judge. They made so much commotion on their 
entry that the gavel was banged for order. The 
interview was held. Judge Landis agreed to accept. 
This news was widely heralded. The judge tied them 
down to a seven-year contract. It was assumed in 
all the interviews in all the newspapers that the 
judge would resign. It was assumed he would de- 
vote the rest of his life to baseball. 

The baseball magnates signed up under the 
“Lasker Plan” put across by Austrian. 

Judge Landis also signed. 

And then he remained on the bench! 

The reader no doubt remembers how quickly 
enthusiasm for Judge Landis died down in certain 
quarters ; remembers, too, no doubt, that a fight was 
started immediately afterward in the United States 
Congress to force Judge Landis off the bench—not 


JEWISH DEGRADATION OF AMERICAN BASEBALL $9 


‘to make him give up the dictatorship of baseball, but 
to make him quit the bench. 

And be this said: in spite of all the collusion and 
conspiracy and trickery, of which Judge Landis was 
the unconscious object, baseball fell into the hands 
of a man who will be just as jealous for its good 
name as Ban Johnson was. The. Austrian-Lasker- 
Dreyfuss plan has so far failed. And Judge Landis 
has rendered several decisions which show that om 
the bench or off the bench he has the same shrewd’ 
eye for the detection of a fallacy. 

Judge Landis is safeguarded by a seven-year con-- 
tract. He is free to be absolutely fearless and fair.. 
What his accession means to baseball will be anx-. 
iously awaited. 

Judge Landis is probably not empowered to stop 
the steady falling of baseball clubs into Jewish 
hands, and if this cannot be stopped, his position 
as supreme dictator becomes little better than that 
of a police court judge settling disputes relating to 
the rules and offenses against them. The peril of 
baseball goes deeper than that. 

A few years ago the owners of the American 
League entered into a gentleman’s agreement not to 
sell their holdings at any time without first con- 
sulting all the other owners. The name of a prospec- 
tive purchaser was to be snbmitted and considered, 
and the deal was to wait upon the approval of all 
the owners in the league. 

In the face of that fact many people wonder how 
Harry Frazee became owner of the Boston Ameri- 
can club. It is very simply explained: the agree- 
ment was not observed in Boston’s case, and thus 
another club was placed under the smothering in- 
fluences of the “chosen race.” The story is worth 
telling: 

Frazee, like so many of his kind, was in the 
“show business,” a manager of burlesque companies. 
Then he saw a chance in sport. In partnership with 
Jack Curley, another Jew, he put on the notoriously 
erooked fight between Jack Johnson and Jess Wil- 
lard at Havana. Curley has been the principal in- 


60 THE INTERNATIONAL JEW 


fluence in killing wrestling, by precisely the kind of 
Jewish policy here described. 

Jack Johnson, the Negro, was a fugitive from 
justice, yet he was champion prize fighter of the 
world. He was spending money like a wild sailor, 
and his funds were running low. He was getting 
into precisely the condition where Jews like to find 
a man, to use him. Unable to fight in the United 
States, but still possessing the championship, he 
was in need of a way out. At this time Frazee and 
Curley made a proposition to Johnson, said to in- 
volve the sum of $35,000, if he would “lay down” 
before Jess Willard. And thus Jess Willard, “prob- 
ably the worst fighter that ever held a title,” was 
made world champion. Frazee and Curley then ex- 
hibited Willard on the stage and in circuses, and 
drew rich dividends. The crooked fight at Havana 
did not involve Willard, he was too poor a fighter 
to need “fixing.” Only Johnson had to be “fixed” 
not to knock Willard out, which he could easily have 
done. But between the time when Curley and Frazee 
gave Willard the title, and the time when Dempsey 
took it away from him, the Jewish syndicate made 
a very rich killing out of the gullible American pub- 
lie. 

But Curley is not the subject here, he deserves a 
separate story. Frazee concerns this article because 
he became owner of the Boston baseball team. He 
bought a new show—the Boston club, in the best 
baseball city of the American League. John J. . 
Lannin, former owner, was a real baseball man, so 
much so indeed that the excitement of the games 
told on his health and it became necessary for him 
to relieve himself of the strain. Frazee was waiting 
to cut in, and whether Lannin feared that the pro- 
posal of Frazee’s name to the American League 
would result in disapproval, or whether Frazee him- 
self, knowing it, contrived to make it worth while 
that the agreement between the American League 
owners should be ignored, remains an open question. 

However that may be, the American League woke 
up one morning to find the little burlesque manager 


JEWISH DEGRADATION OF AMERICAN BASEBALL 61 


and promoter of a crooked prize fight in their midst. 
It was a sad shock to the dignity of “the cleanest 
sport.” 

What could they do about it? Nothing. Frazee 
had bought and paid for what he held. 

Baseball was about as much of a sport to Frazee 
as selling tickets to a merry-go-round would be. He 
wanted to put his team across as if they were May 
Watson’s girly girly burlesquers. Baseball was to 
be “promoted” as Jewish managers promote Coney 
Island. 

The American League owners rebelled, but let 
them rebel! What could they do about it? 

Frazee began his next inside work almost im- 
mediately. Ban Johnson was unalterably opposed 
to the Frazee idea of sport, and Frazee set out to 
“vet” Johnson. A split occurred in the American 
League, with Frazee, Til Huston and Jake Ruppert 
of the New York Club, and Charles A. Comiskey and 
Grabiner, of the Chicago Club, on one side against 
Johnson, and the other American owners comprising 
the other party supporting Johnson. 

Frazee got money out of Chicago—the home of 
Lasker, Austrian, Replogle and Grabiner—to put 
through his Boston deal: A bank loaned him a 
quarter of a million dollars—one of Frazee’s friends 
was a director of the bank. Frazee’s friend died 
and Frazee had difficulty with the bank about re- 
making the notes. He finally was enabled to pay 
$125,000. Frazee secured this money from the New 
York American Club by selling “Babe” Ruth. Thus 
the New York and the Boston clubs have become 
financially interwoven. Boston is referred to as 
“New York’s farm” in baseball circles. 

In the meantime, the fans of Boston feel toward 
Frazee as the fans of Chicago feel toward Grabiner. 
The “class” of Boston no longer flows through the 
gates. The attendance at Boston park is smaller 
than at any other time in the last 15 years. 

Now, it is unlikely that Judge Landis could 
tackle that question. Has he power, or lacking 
power, has he daring enough to assume power to 


62 THE INTERNATIONAL JEW 


drive the peril away from the ownership and fringes 
of baseball? It is probably not his field, but it per- 
tains to the future character of baseball. 

The Chicago American League Club is the most 
recent to attract the desire of Jewish capital. 
The Ascher brothers of that city have offered $1,500,- 
000 for the club franchise. The Ascher brothers 
comprise a Jewish family, Max, Nathan and Harry, 
who conduct a string of motion picture theaters in 
Chicago. They have erected their own theatrical 
circuit. Like Frazee, they wish to add baseball to 
their string of “show businesses,” and are willing to 
pay the price. At the time of this writing, their 
offer has not been turned down. 

But a significant development—and in Chicago 
also—is the announcements made by the Chicago 
Tribune that it will curtail the space heretofore de- 
voted to baseball on its sport pages. This, more than 
anything which has occurred, indicates the new 
scrutiny with which the game is being viewed. For 
a long time many observers have wondered where the 
“sport” was found in sitting on a bleacher watching 
a few men earn their salaries. Hours thus spent 
in a ball park “do not take anything off the waist- 
line of the spectators nor add anything to chest 
measurement,” says the Tribune; “the majority of 
spectators get only eye and mouth exercise.” “Jour- 
nalism has overfed it with space,” the Tribune 
rightly says, referring to professional baseball. In 
ruining baseball and securing control, the Jews may 
be just in time to take a loss. Better no baseball 
than every park an- afternoon midway filled with 
the alien and Red elements of the country. 

There is, however, a baseball duty devolving 
upon the police of every city, and that is the aboli- 
tion of the Jew-controlled baseball pool. Gambling 
has grown up round the “cleanest game” to the ex- 
tent of $20,000,000 a year. It flourishes in 150 
cities in the country, and in many small towns. The 
“boobs,” of course, are mostly non-Jews, the owners 
and profit-takers are Jews. It is as much a part of 
the national network of the Jewish gambling fra- 





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ternity as are booze-running and horse-racing. The 
baseball pool runs more openly than the “books” be- 
cause the very name “baseball” has seemed to give 
it the protection of “the cleanest sport.” However, 
it has turned cigar-stores, barber shops, pool rooms, 
near-beer saloons, and newspaper stands into agen- 
cies for the national and international Jewish gam- 
bling forces. The bettor is entirely at the mercy of 
the managers of these pools. 

These dishonest ‘money-collecting devices are in 
violation of the law everywhere. The police could 
put them out of business easily if they should de- 
cide to give their attention to it. And thereby they 
would be taking the hands of a most undesirable 
alien class out of the pockets of the American people. 

If baseball is to be saved, arid there are those 
who seriously doubt it ever can be restored, the rem- 
edy is plain. The disease is caused by the Jewish 
characteristic which spoils everything by ruthless 
commercial exploitation. The disease may be too 
far gone for any cure. There are those who, like the 
Chicago Tribune, deny that professional baseball 
ever was a sport, and who are glad that Jewish ex- 
ploiters, like scavengers, have come along to reduce 
it to garbage. But there is no doubt anywhere, 
among either friends or critics of baseball, that the 
root cause of the present condition is due to Jewish 
influence. 


Issue of September 10, 1921. 


XLVII. 


Jewish Jazz Becomes Our 
National Music 


AxBour a year ago the following article appeared 

in the New York Times, a newspaper that has 
never been accused of anti-Semitism, and whose 
proprietor is one of the best-known Jews in the 
United States: 

“Irving Berlin, Leo Feist and other officers 
of seven music publishing corporations in this 
city were charged with violating the Sherman 
anti-trust law in an equity suit begun yester- 
day in the Federal District Court by the United 
States Government. The defendants, it was al- 
leged, controlled 80 per cent of the available 
copyrighted songs used by manufacturers of 
phonographs, player piano rolls and other musi- — 
cal reproducing instruments, and fixed prices 
at which the records or rolls were to be sold to 
the public;. .... 

“The corporations involved in the action 
were the Consolidated Music Corporation, 144 
West Thirty-seventh street; Irving Berlin, Inc., 
1567 Broadway; Leo Feist, Inc., 231 West For- 
tieth street; T. ‘B. Harms, Francis, Day and 
Hunter, Inc., 62 West Forty-fifth street; Sha- 
piro, Bernstein & Company, 218 West Forty- 
Seventh street; Watterson, Berlin & Snyder, 
Inc., 1571 Broadway, and M. Witmark & Sons, 
Inc., 144 West Thirty-seventh street. 

“The agreement which the government seeks 
to .dissolve is alleged to provide that the de- 
fendants would make contracts only through 
the Consolidated Music Corporation which they 
had organized... .” 

Many people have wondered whence come the 
waves upon waves of musical slush that invade de- 
cent parlors and set the young people of this genera- 


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tion imitating the drivel of morons. A clue to the 
answer is in the above clipping. Popular Music is 
a Jewish monopoly. Jazz is a Jewish creation. The 
mush, the slush, the sly suggestion, the abandoned 
sensuousness of sliding notes, are of Jewish origin. 

Monkey talk, jungle squeals, grunts and squeaks 
and gasps suggestive of cave love are camouflaged 
by a few feverish notes and admitted to homes 
where the thing itself, unaided by the piano, would 
be stamped out in horror. Girls and boys a little 
while ago were inquiring who paid Mrs. Rip Van 
Winkle’s rent while Mr. Rip Van Winkle was away. 
In decent parlors the fluttering music sheets dis- 
closed expressions taken directly from the cesspools 
of modern capitals, to be made the daily siang, the 
thoughtlessly hummed remarks of high school boys 
and girls. 

The United States Government alleged, in the 
above complaint, that 80 per cent of these popular 
songs was under the control of the seven Jewish 
houses named above; and the other 20 per cent con- 
trolled by other Jewish music houses not included 
in that special group. 

It is rather surprising, is it not, that whichever 
way you turn to trace the harmful streams of influ- 
ence that flow through society, you come upon a 
group of Jews? In baseball corruption—a group of 
Jews. In exploitative finance—a group of Jews. In 
theatrical degeneracy—a group of Jews. In liquor 
propaganda—a group of Jews. In control of na- 
tional war policies—a group of Jews. Absolutely 
dominating the wireless communications of the 
world—a group of Jews. In the menace of the 
Movies—a group of Jews. In control of the Press 
through business and financial pressure—a group of 
Jews. War profiteers, 80 per cent of them—Jews. 
Organizers of active opposition to Christian laws 
and customs—Jews. And now, in this miasma of 
so-called popular music, which combines weak-mind- 
edness with every suggestion of lewdness—again 
Jews. 

The Jewish influence on American music is, with- 


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out doubt, regarded as serious by those who know 
anything about it. Not only is there a growing pro- 
test against the Judaization of our few great or- 
chestras, but there is a strong reaction from the 
racial collusion which fills the concert stage and 
popular platform with Jewish artists to the exclu- 
sion of all others. 

The American people have been urged and chid- 
ed and shamed into the beginning of a rather gener- 
ous popular support of music in this country, and 
the first thing they see for their money is that Jew- 
ish artists supplant the non-Jewish artists, and use 
the prestige of their membership in symphony or- 
chestras to work various small business schemes of 
their own. If they were superior artists, nothing 
against it could be said, but they are not superior 
artists; they are only better known and racially 
favored in Jewish musical circles. 

That, however, is a big subject.. It will receive 
attention in its turn. Just now it is the “popular 
song” that is being considered. However, as some- 
thing which true lovers and knowers of music may 
meditate upon in view of future studies of Jewish 
influence in music, this observation is offered (the 
italics are ours): 

“Meanwhile the Oriental, especially the Jew- 
ish, infection in our music, seemingly less wide- 
spread than the German was or the French is, 
may prove even more virulent. Those not tem- 
peramentally immune to it catch it less severe- 
ly, like Mr. Leo Ornstein; and if they ever throw 
it off, as he has given some signs of doing, seem 
to be left devoid of energy and, as it were, per- 
manently anemic. 

“The insidiousness of the Jewish menace to 
our artistic integrity is due partly to the spe- 
ciousness, the superficial charm and persuasive- 
ness of Hebrew art, its brilliance, its violently 
juxtaposed extremes of passion, its poignant 
eroticism and pessimism, and partly to the fact 
that the strain in us which might make head 
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perhaps in our mixed nature, is diluted and 
confused by a hundred other tendencies. 

“The Anglo-Saxon group of qualities, the 
Anglo-Saxon point of view, even though they 
are so thoroughly disguised, in a people de- 
scended from every race, that we easily forget 
them, and it is not safe to predicate them of any 
individual American, are nevertheless the vital 
nucleus of the American temper. And the Jew- 
ish domination of our music, even more than 
the Teutonic and the Gallic, threatens to sub- 
merge and stultify them at every point.” 

“Let me make a nation’s songs and I[ care not 
who makes the laws,” said one; in this country the 
Jews have had a very large hand in making both. 

It is the purpose of this and the succeeding arti- 
cle to put Americans in full possession of the truth 
concerning the moron music which they habitually 
hum and sing and shout day by day, and if possible 
to help them to see the invisible Jewish baton which 
is waved above them for financial and propaganda 
purposes. 

Just as the American stage and the American 
motion picture have fallen under the influence and 
control of the Jews and their art-destroying com- 
mercialism, so the business of handling “popular 
songs” has become a Yiddish industry. 

Its leaders are for the most part Russian-born 
Jews, some of whom have personal pasts which are 
just as unsavory as THE DEARBORN INDEPENDENT has 
shown the pasts of certain Jewish theatrical and 
movie leaders to be. 

The country does not sing what it likes, but 
what the vaudeville “song pluggers” popularize by 
repeated renditions on the stage, until the flabby 
mind of the “ten-twent’-thirt’” audiences begin to 
repeat it on the streets. These “song pluggers” are 
the paid agents of the Yiddish song agencies. Money, 
and not merit, dominates the spread of the moron 
music which is styled “Jewish Jazz.” Of the busi- 
ness details, however, more later. 

Tin Pan Alley, so-called because it constitutes a 


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group of “song shops,” is populated by the “Abies” 
and “Izzies” and “Moes” who make up the compos- 
ing staffs of the various institutions. 

In this business of making the people’s songs, 
the Jews have shown, as usual, no originality but 
very much adaptability—which is a charitable term 
used to cover plagiarism, which in its turn politely 
covers the crime of mental pocket-picking. The Jews 
do not create; they take what others have done, give 
it a clever twist, and exploit it. They have bought 
up all the old hymn books, opera scores and collec- 
tions of folk songs, and if you stop to analyze some 
of the biggest “hits” of the Yiddish song manufac- 
turers, you will find they are woven on the motif and 
the melody of the clean songs of the last genera- 
tion; the music jazzed a little, the sentiment sensual- 
ized very much, and set upon their smutty road, 
across the country. 

Because of absolute Jewish control of the song. 
market, both in publishing and in theatrical per- | 
formance, it is next to impossible for anything but 
a Jewish song to be published in the United States 
or, if published, to get a hearing. The proof of this 
is in the fact that the Yiddish trust owns the busi- 
ness and the so-called “song hits” all bear Jewish 
names. 

A typical incident occurred in New York recent- 
ly. A non-Jewish song composer had produced work 
of such eommanding merit that musical sentiment 
demanded its public rendition. Jewish manager af- 
ter Jewish manager was approached, but the com- 
bination was unbreakable. Finally, one New Yorker 
talked out and said something about “Jewish com- 
bine,” which had its effect. A Jewish manager pro- 
tested that he would be glad to give the work to the 
public. Rehearsals were held and the night of pres- 
entation arrived. The first number was a solo and 
a Jew appeared to sing it. He could not pronounce 
English words. He sang through his nose. He was 
most Yiddish in appearance, the long nose, with 
narrow, sloping forehead, curly hair. The second 
number was a duet, and behold two Jews appeared, 


JEWISH JAZZ BECOMES OUR NATIONAL MUSIC 69 


whose pronunciations differed between themselves. 
The performance was a most hilarious tragedy. The 
purpose was to kill a non-Jewish product by a poor 
Jewish rendition. But—the Jewish manager over- 
did it. It needed just that to bring non-Jewish mu- 
sical consciousness to the surface and to explode the 
advertised and money-bought notion that the Jew 
has predominant artistic genius. Say that he pre- 
dominates in music—yes; he has paid for and or- 
ganized that predominance; do not, however, say 
anything about his predomiuance in musical genius 
or art. 

Non-Jewish music has been stigmatized as “high 
brow.” It is purveyable only in expensively good 
society. The people, the masses, are fed from day 
to day on the moron suggestiveness that flows in a 
hurtful flood out of Tin Pan Alley. 

Tin Pan Alley is the name given to the region in 
Twenty-eighth street, between Broadway and Sixth 
avenue, where the first Yiddish song manufacturers 
began business. Flocks of young girls who thought 
they could sing, and others who thought they could 
write song poems, came to the neighborhood allured 
by dishonest advertisements that promised more 
than the budding Yiddish exploiters were able to 
fulfill. Needless to say, scandal became rampant, as 
it always does where so-called “Gentile” girls are 
reduced to the necessity of seeking favors from the 
eastern type of Jew. It was the constant shouting 
of voices, the hilarity of “parties,” the banging of 
pianos and the blatting of trombones that gave the 
district the name of Tin Pan Alley. 

The first attempt to popularize and commercial- 
ize the so-called “popular” type of music was made 
by Julius Witmark, who had been a ballad singer 
on the minstrel stage. He ceased performing to be- 
come a publisher, and was soon followed by East 
Side Jews, many of whom have become wealthy 
through their success in pandering to a public taste 
which they first debased. 

Irving Berlin, whose real name is Ignatz or Isa- 
dore Baline, is one of the most successful of these 





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Jewish song controllers. He was born in Russia and 
early became a singer and entertainer. With the 
rise of “rag-time,” which was the predecessor of 
“jazz,” he found a, new field for his nimble talents, 
and his first big success was “Alexander’s Rag-Time 
Band”—a popular piece which by comparison with 
what has followed it, is a blushing, modest thing. 

It was worth noting, in view of the organized 
eagerness of the Jew to make an alliance with the 
Negro, that it was Jewish “jazz” that rode in upon 
the wave of Negro “rag-time” popularity, and even- 
tually displaced the “rag-time.” 

‘Berlin has steadily gone the road from mere in- 
terestingness to unashamed erotic suggestion. He 
is the “headliner” in homes as well as in the not- 
too-particular music halls, but his stuff without its 
music sometimes savors of vile suggestion. 

The motif of this business can be clearly seen in 
the “Berlin Big Hits.” There are the so-called 
“vamp” songs, such as “Harem Life,’ and “You 
Cannot Make Your Shimmy Shake on Tea.” 

Among the “successes” is the song entitled, “I 
Like It.” It is a “vamp” song which has been sung 
everywhere, even by myriads of children who could 
not appreciate the full suggestion of the words, but 
were hypnotized by the atmosphere which the words 
created when sung; and by older folks who would 
not under any circumstances speak the words of the 
song, but who are victims of the modern delusion 
that a little flashy music covers a multitude of sins. 
“T Like It” deals with a girl, “Mary Green, seven- 
teen,’ whose mother reproves her for flirting with 
the boys. (In the writing of this paragraph it was 
debated whether Tur D&ArBorN INDEPENDENT should 
print what Mary replies to her mother. It was ar- 
gued that printing the words might give a salutary 
shock to skeptical readers. It was also argued that 
the pages of this paper never yet had been defiled by 
obscenity. Mary’s words, sung broadcast through 
the country, are therefore not given here.) 

Readers should reserve comment until they 
search the piles of moron music rubbish in their own 


JEWISH JAZZ BECOMES OUR NATIONAL MUSIC 71 


parlors. Readers have listened to much worse stuff 
than Mary’s words, but covered by Yiddish “jazz.” 
It takes cold type to show what a song really is. A 
good test for a song is to try to read it aloud. Few 
normal people can. 

“O-Hi-O,” as sung by Yiddish comedians, has a 
stench of its own. It may be commented on more 
extensively later as an example of the Yiddish prac- 
tice of having three grades of the same song, to suit 
different degrees of degenerate appetites. 

Such songs are not the worst, by any means. 
Jewish purveyors to degenerate appetites have a pe- 
culiarly devilish system of presenting the same song 
in two or three grades. There will be the song as 
it is sold at the music store to addie-pated young 
men and women who fill their leisure with hearing 
or humming this syncopated senility—young men 
and women who pitiably imagine they are keeping 
up with the times. The songs thus sold and sung 
are rotten enough. But there is the same song, Class 
2. The theme and the melody are the same, but it 
goes “a little further.” There is a line or two in 
each stanza which dips below even the low standard 
which Jewish “jazz” has permitted in some of our 
parlors. And then there is Class 3—same theme, 
same melody—but “going the limit.” 

Young men about town usually know Class 2 and 
Class 3. The instance has been known that young 
women have become acquainted with these lower 
grades also. Forgetfulness by young men while 
singing at the piano evenings has given hints of the 
filthier version. And even where version 1 has been 
strictly adhered to, the mutual knowledge, politely 
concealed, has created an atmosphere far from 
wholesome. 

The diabolical cunning with which an unclean 
atmosphere is created and sustained through all 
classes of society and by the same influence, will not 
be overlooked by any observer. There is something 
Satanic about it, something calculated with demonic 
shrewdness. And the stream flows on and on, grow- 
ing worse and worse, to the degradation of the non- 


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Jewish public and the increase of Jewish fortunes. 

If Tue DeARBORN INDEPENDENT were to print on 
this page the bare words of the popular songs that 
are to be found in the parlors of the most respectable 
section of every city, the reader’s sense of decency 
would cry out against it. The same words when 
drawn out by numerous hyphens and covered up 
with nervous music, insinuate their way into the 
hummed tones of age and into the lilts of innocent 
childhood. Between the movies and the popular 
songs the Jewish groups rights the intellectual life 
of the masses. 

Among the latest Jewish gong Hite? may be in- 
cluded these titles: “V’ll:Say She Does”; “You Can- 
not Shake That Shimmy Here’; “Sugar Baby”; “In 
Room 202”; “Can You Tame Wild Wimmen?” and 
an almost endless list of the same nature, some of 
which titles are too suggestive for print. Yet they 
have free course everywhere—as everything Jewish 
does, in this country. 

Ministers, educators, reformers, parents, citizens 
who are amazed at the growth of looseness among 
the people, rail at the evil results. They see the evil . 
product and they attack the product. They rail at 
the young people who go in for all this eroticism 
and suggestiveness. 

But all this has a source! Why not attack the 
source? When a population is bathed in sights, 
sounds and ideas of a certain character, drenched in 
them and drowned in them, by systematic, deliber: 
ate, organized intent, the point of attack should be 
the cause, not the effect. Yet, that is precisely where 
the point of attack has not been made, presumably 
because of lack of knowledge. 

It is of little use blaming the people. The peo- 
ple are what they are made. Give the liquor busi- 
ness full sway and you have a population that drinks 
and carouses. After preaching abstinence to the 
victims for a century, the country turned its atten- 
tion to the victimizers and the abuse was greatly 
curtailed. The traffic is still illicitly carried on, but 


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even so, the best way to abolish the illicit traffic is 
to identify the groups that carry it on. 

The entire population of the United States could 
be turned into narcotic addicts if the same freedom 
was given the illicit narcotic ring as is now given 
the Yiddish popular song manufacturers. But in 
such a condition it would be stupid to attack the 
addicts; common sense would urge the exposure of 
the panderers. 

A dreadful narcotizing of moral modesty and the 
application of powerful aphrodisiacs have been in- 
volved in the present craze for popular songs—a 
stimulated craze. The victims are everywhere. But 
ministers, educators, reformers, parents, and public- 
spirited citizens are beginning to see the futility of 
scolding the young people thus diseased. Common 
sense dictates a cleaning out of the source of disease. 
The source is in the Yiddish group of song manu- 
facturers who control the whole output and who are 
responsible for the whole matter from poetry to 
profits. 

Next to the moral indictment against the so- 
called “popular” song is the indictment that it is 
not popular. Everybody hears it, perhaps the ma- 
jority sing it; it makes its way from coast to coast; 
it is flung into the people’s minds at every movie and 
from every stage; it is advertised in flaring posters ; 
phonograph records shriek it forth day and night, 
dance orchestras seem enamored of it, player pianos 
roll it out by the yard. And by sheer dint of repeti- 
tion and suggestion the song catches on—as a burr 
thistle catches on; until it is displaced by another. 
There is no spontaneous popularity. 

It is a mere mechanical drumming on the minds 
of the public. There is often not a single atom of 
sentiment or spiritual appeal in the whole loudly 
trumpeted “success”; men and women, boys and 
girls have simply taken to humming words and 
tunes which they cannot escape, night or day. 

The deadly anxiety of “keeping up with the 
times” drives the army of pianc-owners to the music 
stores to see what is “going” now, and of course it 


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is the Yiddish moron music that is going, and so 
another home and eventually another neighborhood 
is inoculated. 

But there is no popularity. Take any moron 
music addict you know and ask him what was the 
‘“nopular” song three weeks ago, and he will not be 
able to tell. These songs are so lacking in all that 
the term “popular” means as regards their accept- 
ableness, that they die overnight, unregretted. Di- 
rectly the Yiddish manufacturers have another “hit” 
to make (it is always the public that is “hit”) a new 
song is crammed down the public gullet, and be- 
cause it is the “latest,” and because the Yiddish 
advertisements say that it is a “hit,’ and because 
the hired “pluggers” say that everybody is singing 
it, that song too becomes “popular” for its brief 
period, and so on through the year. It is the old 
game of “changing the styles” to speed up business 
and make the people buy. ‘Nothing lasts in the Yid- 
dish game—styles of clothing, movies nor songs; it 
is always something new, to stimulate the flow of 
money from the popular pocket into the moron music 
makers’ coffers. 

There hasn’t been a real “popular” song of Yid- 
dish origin since the Jewish whistlers and back-alley 
songsters of New York’s East Side undertook to 
handle musical America—not one, unless we except 
in genuine gratitude George Cohan’s “Over There,” 
a song which came out of a period of strain and 
went straight to the people’s heart. 

Two facts about the “popular song” are known 
to all: first, that for the most part it is indecent and 
the most active agent of moral miasma in the coun- 
try, or if not the most active, then neck and neck 
with the “movies”; second, that the “popular song” 
industry is an exclusively Jewish industry. ‘But the 
inside story of the operation of this control of the 
people’s music presents other facts which the people 
ought to know, and these additional facts will ap- 
pear in another article. 


Issuc of August 6, 192]. 


XLVIII. 


How the Jewish Song Trust 
Makes You Sing 


EWS did not create the popular song; they de- 
based it. The time of the entry of Jews into 
control of the popular song is the exact time when 
the morality of popular songs began to decline. It 
is not a pleasant statement to make, but it is a fact. 
It would seem to be a fact of which American Jews 
ought to take solemn cognizance, not to anathema- 
tize those who do service by exposing the fact, but 
to curb that group of Jews who, in this instance, as 
do other groups of Jews in other instances, bring a 
stain upon the Jewish name. 

The “popular” song, before it became a Jewish in- 
dustry, was really popular. The people sang it and 
had no reason to conceal it. The popular song 
of today is often so questionable a composition that 
performers with a vestige of delicacy must appraise 
their audience before they sing. There are songs 
and choruses that can be purchased in any reputable 
music store and found in many reputable parlors 
which cannot be printed in this column of Tur Dnar- 
BORN INDEPENDENT. If they were printed here, “Gen- 
tile fronts” would be the first to complain that this 
paper was using obscenity to give interest to these 
articles. Yet, if those songs were printed, this paper 
would be doing nothing more than following its 
policy of going to Jewish sources for its material. 

Americans of adult age will remember the stages 
through which the popular song has passed during 
the past three or four decades. War songs persisted 
after the Civil War and were gradually intermingled 
with songs of a later time, picturesque, romantic, 
clean. 

These latter were not the product of song fac- 
tories, but the creation of individuals whose gifts 
were given natural expression. These individuals 


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did not work for publishers but for the satisfaction 
of their work. There were no great fortunes made 
out of songs, but there were many satisfactions in 
having pleased the public taste. 

The public taste, like every other taste, craves 
what is given it most to feed upon. Public taste is 
public habit. The public is blind to the source of 
that upon which it lives, and it adjusts itself to the 
supply. Public taste is raised or lowered as the 
quality of its pabulum improves or degenerates. In 
a quarter of a century, given all the avenues of pub- 
licity like theater, movie, popular song, saloon and 
newspaper—in the meantime having thrown the 
mantle of contempt over all counteractive moral 
agencies—you can turn out nearly the kind of public 
you want. It takes just about a quarter of a cen- 
tury to do a good job. 

In other days the people sang as they do now, but 
not in such doped fashion nor with such bewilder- 
ing continuity. They sang songs nonsensical, senti- 
mental and heroic, but the “shady” songs were out- 
lawed. If sung at all, the “shady” songs were kept 
far from the society of decent people. Like the styles 
of the demimonde that formerly were seen only in the 
abandoned sections of cities, the songs of smut had 
their geographical confinement, but like the fashions 
of the demimonde they broke out of their confines to 
spread among polite society. 

The old songs come readily back to memory. 
Though years have intervened since they were the 
fashion, yet their quality was such that they do not 
die. The popular song of last month—who knows 
its name? But there are songs of long age whose 
titles are familiar even to those who have not sung 
them. 

Recall their names—“Listen to the Mocking Bird” 
—what song today has been boosted to general ac- 
ceptance on such a simple theme? The only “birds”: 
the people are encouraged to sing about today are 
“flappers” and “chickens.” 

And there were “Ben Bolt”; “Nellie Gray”; 
“Juanita”; “The Old Folks at Home”; “The Hazel 


HOW THE JEWISH SONG TRUST MAKES YOU SING 77 


Dell”; “When You and I Were Young, Maggie”; 
“Silver Threads Among the Gold.” What margin 
did these songs leave for the suggestive, for the un- 
wholesomely emotional? 

In those days the people sang; they sang to- 
gether; they sang wherever they met; it was the days 
of that now extinct institution known as “the sing- 
ing school.” People could sing together. The songs 
were common property, known to everybody, proper 
to everybody. 

Is there such singing today? Hardly. At a re- 
cent meeting of young men in a church the chorus, 
“Hail, Hail, the Gang’s All Here” was called for, 
and the chairman in agreeing called out “Mustn’t 
say the naughty word!” With that warning the 
chorus was given. In calling for public singing 
there is an immediate uneasiness about possible in- 
decency. There was not this uneasiness before the 
days of Jewish jazz. 

In course of time the fashion of public song un- 
derwent a change. An entirely new crop of titles 
appeared, dealing with an entirely different series 
of subjects than the songs they displaced. 

It was the period of “Annie Rooney”; “Down 
Went McGinty to the Bottom of the Sea”; “She’s 
Only a Bird in a Gilded Cage”; “After the Ball is 
Over”’—all of them clean, lighter than the preced- 
ing fashion in songs, but just as clean, and also giv- 
ing a true touch to life. 

Sentiment was not lacking, but it was the unob- 
jectionable sentiment of “My Wild Irish Rose” or 
“In the Baggage Coach Ahead.” 

The non-Jewish period was marked by songs lke 
these: “On the ‘Banks of the Wabash,” by Paul Dres- 
ser; “In the Shade of the Old Apple Tree’; “When 
the Sunset Turns the Ocean’s Blue to Gold”; “Down 
by the Old Mill Stream”; “My Sweetheart’s the Man 
in the Moon,” by Jim Thornton; “The Sidewalks of 
New York,” by Charles Lawlor. | 

There was also the “western” and “Indian” strain 
of songs, represented by ‘‘Cheyenne, Cheyenne, Hop 


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on My Pony”; “Arawanna”’; “Trail of the Lonesome 
Pine.” 

Then came the African period, being the entrance 
of the jungle motif, the so-called “Congo” stuff into 
popular pieces. “High Up in the Cocoanut Tree,” 
“Under the Bamboo Tree,” and other compositions 
which swiftly degenerated into a rather more bestial 
type than the beasts themselves arrive at. 

Running alongside all this was the “ragtime” 
style ef music which was a legitimate development 
of Negro minstrelsy. Lyrics practically disappeared 
before the numerous “cake walk” songs that deluged 
the public ear. “There’ll Be a Hot Time in the Old 
Town Tonight”—the marching song of the Span- 
ish-American War, belongs to that period. The 
“black and tan” resorts of the South began to reign 
over the nation’s music both North and South. Se- 
ductive syncopation captured the public ear. The 
term, “ma baby,” brought in on the flood of Negro 
melody has remained in uncultivated musical speech 
ever since. Minstrelsy took on new life. “Piano 
acts” made their appearance. “Jazz bands” were 
the rage. 

By insensible gradations, now easily traceable 
through the litter of songs with which recent decades 
are strewn; we have been able to see the gradual de- 
cline in the popular song supply. Sentiment has 
been turned into sensuous suggestion. Romance has 
been turned into eroticism. The popular lilt slid 
into ragtime, and ragtime has been superseded by 
jazz. Song topics became lower and lower until at 
last they were dredges of the slimy bottom of the 
underworld. 

The first self-styled “King of Jazz” was a Jew 
named “Frisco.” The general directors of the whole 
downward trend have been Jews. It needed just 
their touch of cleverness to camouflage the moral 
filth and raise it half a degree above that natural 
stage where it begets nothing but disgust. They 
cannot gild the lily, but they can veil the skunk- 
cabbage, and that is exactly what has been done. 
The modern popular song is a whited sepulcher, 


HOW THE JEWISH SONG TRUST MAKES YOU SING 79 


sparkling without, but within full of the dead bones 
of all the old disgusting indecencies. Plain print 
returns them to their rightful status of disgust. 

We are now in the period of “The Vamp”—that 
great modern goddess upon whom tens of thousands 
of silly girls are modeling themselves—“The Vamp.” 
The original “vamp” is to be found in a forbidden 
French novel upon which Morris Gest founded his 
grossly immoral spectacle called “Aphrodite.” In 
the Jewish popular song and the Jewish motion pic- 
ture film a unity has at last been reached in “The 
Vamp.” The vamp heroine and the harem scene—a 
fitting climax! 

There is work here for the Anti-Defamation 
League. That league knows how to put the screws 
on anyone who disparages the Jews. From impor- 
tant New York publishers, down to inconsequential 
country newspapers, the Anti-Defamation League 
makes its power felt. There is work for it in the 
movies and the popular song industry. Why does 
not the league put the screws on those Jews who 
have degenerated the movies and debauched the pop- 
ular song movement and thus brought shame upon 
the racial name? Why not? Is it possible that only 
the non-Jews are to be controlled, and Jews let to 
run loose? Is it possible that “Gentiles” can be 
curbed as by bridle and bit and that Jews cannot? 

It is repeated: there is work for the Anti-Defama- 
tion League among the Jews. 

More than that: there are Jews who have begged 
the Anti-Defamation League to purge the name of 
Jewry of the shame the liquor Jews, the movie 
Jews, the popular song Jews, the theatrical Jews, 
and the others are bringing on that name, and the 
Anti-Defamation League has not done so. It dare 
not. 

American Jewry is desperately afraid of opening 
a single seam in its armor by means of a single 
investigation or reform. They are afraid of how 
far the fire of self-correction may spread. 

It was the intention of THe Dsrarsorn INDB- 
PENDENT to give in this article a sample of the man- 


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ner in which Jewish jazz is written in three classes 
—No. 1 for general consumption; No. 2 for stage con- 
sumption; No. 3 for the lowest resorts. On search- 
ing through the songs for the least offensive ex- 
ample it is found that even the least offensive can- 
not be printed here. The fact is greatly regretted, 
for certainly some method must be found by which 
the public can be put into possession of full infor- 
mation as to what is transpiring in this hideous 
traffic. 

The Jewish art of “camouflage” (the reader may 
not be aware that wartime camouflage was a Jewish 
invention) has always been operative. “Cover names” 
“cover nationalities” (these are Jewish terms) have 
long been known. It is quite common for Jews of 
the higher type to band themselves together into 
societies for political and racial purposes, the pur- 
poses being camouflaged by a name, such as Geo- 
logical Society, or Scientific Society, or something 
of the sort. And thus in the vilest versification, — 
which only a few years ago would have been refused 
the mails, they have flung broadcast among the youth 
of the world dangerous ideas under the camouflage 
of catchy tunes. 

The tunes themselves carry a tale with them. 
There have been cases in the courts dealing with the 
“adaptation,” or stealing, of tunes for “popular 
song” purposes. If you observe carefully you will 
catch reminiscent strains in many of the popular 
songs which you sing. If you sing, “Rocked in the 
Cradle of the Deep,” and then sing, “I’m Always 
Chasing Rainbows,” you will notice a basic resem- 
blance; but that does not prove that “Rocked in the 
Cradle of the Deep” is itself original, its melody 
was originally taken from an Opus of Chopin. This 
is a practice which has been greatly extended of 
recent years. 

The reason for the spread of this peculiar kind of 
dishonesty is to be found in the Jewish policy of 
“speeding up business.” Ordinarily one play a week, 
and one or two new songs a season, was the limit 
of indulgence. But with the coming of the movies 


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the “one play a week”. plan has been smashed to 
smithereens. To get the people to pay their money 
every day, the programs are changed every day; and 
to get new plays every day, something must be 
cheapened. So with songs. The output is rushed 
to increase the income of money, and quality is sac- 
rificed all round. There are not enough good songs 
in the world to supply a new one every week; not 
enough good plays in the world to supply a new 
movie every day; and so, what the songs and 
plays lack in worth, they make up in nastiness. 
In brief, nastiness is the constant quality on 
which the producers depend to “put across” mediocre 
songs and otherwise pointless plays. Nastiness is 
the condiment that goes with cheapness in songs and 
movies. 

Plagiarism is the result of mediocre artists being 
spurred on by non-artistic promoters to produce 
something that can be dressed up with sufficient 
attractiveness to draw the public’s money. But even 
plagiarism requires a little brains mixed with it, 
and when the rush of demand overwhelms the avail- 
able brains, the lack is covered up by an elaborate 
covering of sensualism. 

Men who are on the inside of the popular song 
business, and certain court records, all testify to the 
exact truth of these statements. 

“But how do the Jews do it?” is a question often 
asked. The answer is, not public demand, nor artis- 
tic merit, nor musical ingenuity, nor poetic worth 
no; the answer is simple salesmanship. The public 
doesn’t choose, the public simply takes what is per- 
sistently thrust uponit. It is a system impossible to 
any other race but the Jews, for there is no other 
race that centers its whole interest on the sale. 
There is no other race that makes so startling a 
choice in favor of “getting” money to the exclusion 
of “making” money. Who for a moment would think 
seriously of using the terms “production” and “serv- 
ice” with reference to popular songs or motion pic- 
tures? Motion pictures in their higher reaches 
might have some claim on those terms—not the 





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typical Jewish pictures, however; but the modern 
crop of popular songs, never! The terms “produc- 
tion” and “service” do not belong to the popular 
song industry at all, but the term “salesmanship” 
does, as the reader will presently see. It is well to 
remember that where there is only “salesmanship” 
without the other two qualities, the public is always 
the sufferer. 

“Popularity,” when interpreted by the Jews who- 
manufacture jazz for the United States, means “‘fa- 
mniliarity,” that’s all. The theory is that a song need 
not possess merit as regards words or music to be 
successful. Jt can be “popularized” artificially by 
constant repetition, until it becomes familiarized to 
the public ear, and thus familiarized it becomes ‘‘suc: 
cessful.” 

The principle is expressed in the words of the 
song, “Everybody’s Doin’ It.” You go to the theater 
and hear a song. Next day at lunch the café singer 
is Singing the same song. Blaring phonographs used 
for advertising purposes blat out the same song at 
vou as you pass on the street. You walk past an 
afternoon band concert in the park—the band is 
playing the same song. If you are a normal person 
vou have a feeling that perhaps something has been 
going on in the world while you were engaged with 
your own affairs. The song—you say to yourself 
frankly—is silly and the music trivial; but you keep 
your opinion a secret, because, after all, “everybody’s 
singin’ it.” Not long after you find yourself hum- 
ming it. You go home, and your daughter is “prac- 
ticing up” on the piece. It yells its way through 
your home and through your neighborhood and 
through your city and through your state until in 
sheer disgust, and in one day, the people pitch it 
bodily out-of-doors. But, behold, another song is 
waiting to take its place—a song fresh from Yiddish 
Tin Pan Alley. And the agony is repeated. This 
occurs from 30 to 50 times a year. 

That is the principle— repeat it until it becomes 
familiar; that gives it the veneer of popularity. 

Now, there is a method by which all this is done. 


HOW THE JEWISH SONG TRUST MAKES YOU SING 83 


Nothing “happens.” It is like the “mob risings” 
which have been practiced in some of our cities— 
there is always a well-organized center that knows 
the technology of riot and knows exactly what it is 
doing. There is a way of making “revolution” as 
common and as familiar a thought as the movies 
and popular songs have made “vamps” and “harems” 
and “hooch” and “Hula Hula.” The principle is the 
same—constant repetition for the purpose of famil- 
iarization. 

More than one tune has been deliberately rejected 
by the public, has not been “liked,” but the song- 
tinkers did not allow that little fact to intimidate 
them; they simply hammered it into the ears and 
memories of the public, knowing that “familiariza- 
tion” was obtainable some time. ‘Whispering,’ for 
example, did not catch on for a long time. Long 
ago it used to be known as “Johnnie’s Melody” be- 
cause John Schoenberger wrote it—but finally it 
was driven home to its present popularity. There is 
this to say about it, it is far more deserving of its 
popularity than is 98 per cent of the so-called “pop- 
ular” music. 

_ Having the principle, then, that any song can be 
popularized by constant repetition, the Yiddish 
music purveyors go about their business very sys- 
tematically. 

The song is procured—by what means, it is not al- 
Ways possible to say. Perhaps one of the “staff” 
originates a catchy tune, or a girl who plays the 
church organ in a distant village sends in a pretty 
little melody. The girl’s melody is, of course, sent 
back as unsuitable, but if it really had a heart of 
melody in it, a copy is kept and “adapted.” In such 
ways are “ideas” procured. 

Then there are plenty of Jewish musical com- 
edies and vaudeville teams. A study of the vaude- 
ville and musical comedy business will show it to be 
as distinctively Yiddish as are the movies and the 
popular song industry. So, the Jewish song pub- 
lisher makes an arrangement with the Jewish man- 
ager of the musical comedy show. This arrangement 


84 THE INTERNATIONAL JEW 


provides that one or more of the song publisher’s 
songs should be sung several times at every perform- 
ance, in response to the applause and encores of a 
professional song boosters’ claque which is always 
on hand for such purposes. This claque is paid for 
just as any other service might be paid for. 

The night comes. The song is sung. Persistent 
applause. Sung again. More applause. Apparently 
the song is a “hit.” As the audience files out the 
lobby is echoing with the cries of Yiddish song ven- 
dors proclaiming the song of the evening to be “the 
big hit of the season,” hundreds of copies being sold 
in the meanwhile. 

That is the usual Broadway introduction. 

The next step is to capture the “‘provinces”.—the 
musical comedies and vaudeville acts playing within 
100 miles of the metropolitan centers. Actors called 
“song pluggers” are engaged. The arrangement 
with them is that they will sing a particular song 
exclusively—give no other song a chance. The pub- 
lic pays to hear the actor sing; the manager pays to 
have him sing; the song publisher pays him to sing 
a certain song. 

From theater to theater, from company to com- 
pany, from artist to artist, the publishers’ agents 
wend their way, making what terms they can to 
single artists, vaudeville teams or comedy companies 
for boosting a new song by giving it prominent 
place in the program. 

_ There are also the “stag entertainers,” the young 
men who go about to “parties” of one kind or an- 
other, offering amusement to the guests. This is a 
class of entertainers known only to the rich, but nu- 
merous enough. For instance, when the Prince of 
Wales toured America he was accompanied by a 
young man nicknamed “Rosie,” of whose racial or- 
igin there need be no doubt. “Rosie” played the 
piano and by songs and antics beguiled the tedium 
of the royal journey. Well, young men of “Rosie’s” 
sort are quite useful in advertising to select circles 
the latest product of the Yiddish song factories and 


HOW THE JEWISH SONG TRUST MAKES YOU SING 85 


they are, of course, regularly utilized for that pur- 
pose. 

Orchestras, especially those of restaurants and 
dance halls, are worked in the same way. 

Get as many people singing and playing intro- 
ductory renditions as you can: that is the method 
of gaining an artificial popularity by constant 
repetition. 

The chances are that the song you are humming 
today is being hummed by you simply because you 
have perforce heard it so often that it beats uncon- 
sciously within your brain. 

These methods are subject to variation, of course. 
There was a great deal of “cutting” until the right 
Hebrew group survived, and then there was a great 
deal of “trust” method adopted. The Music Pub- 
lishers’ Association was organized by “Sime” Silber- 
man and Maurice Goodman, and now all the Jewish 
song manufacturers are included in it. The organ- 
ization has not changed any of the methods before 
used but has curtailed the expense. Moreover, it 
has served to relieve the public to this extent, that, 
instead of clinging to the one song paid for until 
the public positively gags on it, the vaudeville or 
movie performers now sing impartially the various 
songs of the various publishers forming the trust. 
More variety has been introduced, that is all. The 
same old commercialization continues. 

As readers of the studies of Jewish theatrical 
control, which appeared in this paper, will readily 
understand, the Jewish control of the popular song 
field means that all non-Jews are barred out. It 
would be next to impossible for the song of a non- 
Jew, however meritorious, to reach the public by the 
usual channels. The musical magazines, the musical 
critics, the musical managers, the music publishers, 
the music-hall owners, the majority of the perform- 
ers are not only all Jews, but are Jews consciously 
banded together to keep out all others. 

The dishonest methods practiced by the Yiddish 
controllers of this field have been such as to move 
the Billboard, the leading vaudeville publication, to 


86 THE INTERNATIONAL JEW 


refuse to print advertisements calling for song- 
poems. Perhaps the reader has seen such advertise- 
ments, suggesting that someone has a tune or a 
song-poem that will probably make a fortune if only 
sent to an address on Broadway or in the region of 
Tin Pan Alley. The billboard says: 

“No More Song Poem Ads Accepted. 

“After investigating the business methods 
practiced by some Song Poem advertisers, the 
Billboard believes it to be to the best interest of 
its readers to eliminate the heading, ‘Music and 
Words’ under which Song Poem advertisements 
appeared, and hereafter, or until existing condi- 
tions are changed, the Billboard will not accept 
any more Song Poem advertising from any con- 
cern or person ....” 

Everywhere the “popular song” has been attacked 
by keen observers of social tendencies—but the at- 
tack has not been made intelligently. No public 
menace like this can be abolished without showing 
the public the source of it. Newspapers are now 
beginning to attack “jazz,” “the vicious movies,” 
“the disgraceful dance.” Others attack the young 
folk who sing jazz, the people who patronize the ob- 
jectionable movies, the throngs who indulge in in- 
decent dancing. But all the time a small group of 
men are deliberately and systematically forcing jazz 
and movies and dances upon the country, spending 
hundreds of thousands in the effort and reaping 
millions of profits. 

If these men were non-Jews, a multitude of fin- 
gers would be pointed toward them in identification 
and denunciation. 

Because these men are Jews, they are allowed to 
go free. 

You will stop these abuses when you point out 
the Jewish group behind them! 

People sometimes say, “Well, if you went after 
any other nationality, you could find just as much 
fault as with the Jews.” Is there any other nation- 
ality on which you can fasten the responsibility for 
vile movies? Is there any other on which you can 


HOW THE JEWISH SONG TRUST MAKES YOU SING 383 


fasten the responsibility for the illicit liquor traffic? 
Has any other nationality control of the theater? 
In the beginning action against the popular song 
trust, could the United States find anyone to indict 
besides Jewish song publishers, and could the 
United States Government lay less than 80 per 
cent of song control to one New York group alone? 

If these things were not strictly Jewish in their 
origin, method and purpose, how could such state- 
ments be made? 

Jews say, “Clean up among the Gentiles first, 
and then turn attention to us.” Will the Jews 
charge Gentile control of movies, popular songs, 
horse racing, baseball gambling, theaters, the illicit 
liquor traffic—will the Jews charge Gentile pre- 
dominance in any line recognized by moralists to- 
day as dangerously menacing the public welfare? 

The question is too big to be explained by prej- 
udice. The facts are too challenging to be thrust 
aside as universal. It is a Jewish question, made 
such by a series of Jewish facts. 

Not content with hedging life about on every 
side, from the gold that is used in business to the 
grain that is used in bread, Jewish influence enters 
your parlor and determines what you shall sing at 
your piano or hear upon your music reproducing 
machine. If you could put a tag marked “Jewish” 
on every part of your life that is Jew-controlled, you 
would be astonished at the showing. 





Issue of August 13, 1921. 


XLIX. 


Jewish Hot-Beds of Bolshevism 
in the U. S. 


OLSHEVISM is working in the United States 

through precisely the same channels it used in 
Russia and through the same agents—Revolution- 
ary and Predatory Unionism, as distinct from Busi- 
ness and Uplift Unionism, and Jewish agitators. 
When Martens, the so-called Soviet ambassador, 
“left” the United States after being deported, he ap- 
pointed as the representative of Bolshevik sovietism 
in the United States one Charles Recht, a Jew, a 
lawyer by profession, who maintained an office in 
New York. This office is the rendezvous of all the 
Jewish union leaders in New York, some of the 
labor leaders throughout the country, and occa- 
sionally of one or two American government officials 
known to be henchmen of Jewish aspirations in the 
United States and sympathizers with predatory rad- 
icalism. 

The situation in New York is important because 
from that center lines of authority and action ra- 
diate to all the cities of the United States. New York 
is the laboratory in which the emissaries of the 
revolution learn their lesson, and their knowledge 
is being daily increased by the counsel and experi- 
ence of traveling delegates straight. out of Russia. 

The American does not realize that all the public 
disturbances of which he reads are not mere sudden 
outbreaks, but the deliberately planned movements 
of leaders who know exactly what they are doing. 
Mobs are methodical; there is always an intelligent 
core which gets done under the appearance of excite- 
ment what had been planned beforehand. Up 
through the German revolution, up through the 
French revolution, up through the Russian revolution 
came the previously chosen men, and to this day in 
all three countries the groups thus raised to power 
have not lessened their hold—and they are Jewish 


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groups. Russia is not more Jew-controlled than is 
France; and Germany, with all her so-called anti- 
Semitism, tries in vain to loosen the grip of Judah 
from her throat. 

It is this fact of prepared disorder which makes 
. the New York situation of interest today, because its 
lines of influence and authority reach everywhere 
throughout the country. 

For that reason, and before showing how the 
Jewish organizations advance 'Bolshevism and rev- 
olution in the United States, the first step will be 
to describe the condition and extent of the Hebrew 
labor movement. | 

Most New Yorkers remember the “Save Fifth 
Avenue” movement. That avenue, from Fourteenth 
to Thirty-fourth street, with sections of Broadway, 
is historic ground. It is wrought into the history 
of America in a peculiarly intimate way. A little 
more than 15 years ago it contained the homes of 
the older families, the establishments of famous 
publishers, the stores of art dealers, and the famous 
shopping center. It was a district known through- 
out the United States as typifying American sub- 
stance and good taste. 

But presently, Americans who thought they were 
secure in their own city, were aware of an advanc- 
ing shadow. A subtle atmosphere of deterioration 
became evident. In the top lofts of buildings, sweat- 
shops had been installed, which noon and night 
poured into the streets an alien stream—not a glad, 
hopeful-eyed immigrant rejoicing to be in America 
and at work, but something darker. 

It was the Russian and Polish Jew. He swarmed 
into this district, the most typically American of 
any outside of Boston and Philadelphia, from the 
first. Nowhere else would the sweatshops go except 
in the very heart of Goy respectability. There were 
protests and organizations; Jews were appealed to 
in the name of the city; they smiled and promised, 
but like a tide coming in, the invasion swept farther 
and stronger every week. New Yorkers hesitated 
to go down into the district to trade, and merchants 


90 THE INTERNATIONAL JEW 


lost their business. Real estate values dropped in 
consequence, the Jews bought valuable properties 
at low figures. 

Today, at noontime, Fifth Avenue is packed from 
wall to curb with dark, squat figures in masses of 
thousands. They parade in dense throngs and make 
the street impassable. They make a strange, un- 
American atmosphere, Slavonic with some Oriental 
admixture. Their tongue is alien, their attitude is 
one of sullenness mingled with a sense of power. 
You leave the New York of American meaning when- 
ever you approach that alien throng. They have 
taken over the district as completely as if they had 
invaded it with the bayonet. 

All this would be very hopeful, of course, if we 
could take and sustain the attitude of the unsophis- 
ticated young reader of fiction, and regard these 
people as “new Americans.” There is a mass of 
moving stories (mostly written by Jews, by the way) 
pretending to describe the glowing hearts with 
which these throngs look out upon America, their in- 
tense longing to be American, their love of our peo- 
ple and our institutions. Most unfortunately, the 
actions of these people and the utterances of their 
leaders give the lie to this fair picture which, as 
Americans, we would fain believe. The resistance 
offered to Americanization, consisting in the limita- 
tions put upon the Americanization program, has 
been sufficient to convince all observers that, so far 
as the Jewish invasion is concerned, it is not their 
desire to go the way America is going, but to in- 
fluence America to go the way they are going. They 
talk a great deal of what they bring to America, 
hardly anything at all of what they found here. 
America is presented to them as a big piece of putty 
to be molded as they desire, not as a benign mother 
who is able and willing to make these aliens to be 
like her own children. The doctrine that the United 
States is nothing definite as yet, that it is only a 
free-for-all opportunity to make it what you will, is 
one of the most distinctive of Jewish political teach- 
ings. If it be provincialism to insist that our alien 


JEWISH HOT-BEDS OF BOLSHEVISM IN THE U. S. 91 


guests become American and cease their endeavors 
to make America something alien, then there are 
hundreds of thousands of Americans to plead guilty 
to provincialism. 

“The Melting Pot,” a term to which Mr. Zangwill 
gave currency, is not a very dignified name for our 
Republic, but aside from that, it is being more and 
more challenged as descriptive of the process that 
goes on here. There are some substances in the pot 
that will not melt. But more significant still, there 
are rapidly increasing interests who want to melt 
the pot. 

So far as Fifth Avenue was concerned, it was 
the pot that melted. At least, not the most intrepid 
Jewish leader will shout much about the American 
characteristics of the most conspicuous Jewish col- 
ony in the world, that of New York. 

The lofty buildings in this district: are filled 
with clothing ‘workshops, of which the Jew has a mo- 
nopoly in the United States. Coatmakers, pant- 
makers, buttonhole workers, ladies’ garment workers, 
these men are engaged in the “needle trades” in 
which adult men of no other race participate. 

Why the tendency of the Jew to the “needle 
trades”? It is explained by his aversion to manual 
labor, his abhorrence of agricultural life, and his 
desire to arrange his own affairs. Arriving in the 
city of his destination, the Jew would rather not 
leave it except for other cities. There is one Hebrew 
society whose charter would indicate that its work is 
the placing of Jews in the rural! districts, but it does 
next to nothing in this respect. On the other hand, 
there is testimony that city colonization goes on 
apace. Widespread Jewish associations are on the 
lookout for likely towns in which to settle a few 
Jews, who in time become a larger colony, and in 
a little longer time run the place. There is nothing 
haphazard about it. The Jew is not an adventurer, 
he does not cut himself off from his base, but all his 
movements are made under consultation and direc- 
tion. New York is the great training school in 
which the newly arrived immigrant receives his in- 


92 THE INTERNATIONAL JEW 


structions as to the method of handling the Amer- 
ican goyim. 

Thus, preferring any kind of a life in the city, 
and not taking to the trades which involve much 
bodily effort, the Jew gravitates to the needle, not 
in the capacity of a creative artist, as is the com- 
mercial tailor, but in the production of quantities of 
ready-to-wear goods. 

Aside from the “white collar quality of the job,” 
the “needle trades” appeal to the Jew because at 
such work he can practically arrange his own hours. 
For this reason, the Jew generally prefers piece 
work to day work, domestic industries to factories— 
he can arrange his own time. Many people wonder 
how the Jews of New York have so much time for 
revolutionary consultation, parades, meetings, dem- 
onstrations, restaurant debates and radical author- 
ship. No other class of working people can get the 
time; other people work pretty steadily. The ex- 
planation is at hand: extreme Socialism and Bol- 
shevism have a great deal of “time off.” 

Trotsky, the present head of Russia, lived that 
way in New York. His main arrangement was for 
leisure to work up his scheme. All the East Side 
leaders knew that Trotsky was to “take the Czar’s 
job,” even though he never had an extra dollar to 
spend. ‘There was nothing haphazard about it. It 
was prearranged, and the appointed men went 
directly to their preappointed places. The East 
Side has other rulers ready now, and they live in 
the midst of the revolutionary “needle trades.” 

One point that should not be overlooked in all 
this, of course, is that the ‘needle trades” being ex- 
clusively Jewish, all their abuses are Jewish too. 
This is said for the benefit of those apologists for 
Russian Bolshevism who explain that the reason for 
it all is the way the poor “Russian” was treated in 
America. If Americans will ever learn to remember 
that the Russian is not a Jew, and that Bolshevism 
is not Russian but Jewish, and if in addition to that 
the American will ever learn to remember that every 
Russian-Jewish laborer in New York comes into 


—, 


JEWISH HOT-BEDS OF BOLSHEVISM IN THE U. S. 93 


contact with a Russian-Jewish employer, and every 
Russian Jew tenant pays his exorbitant rent to a 
Russian Jew landlord, it will then be clear that once 
more has the United States been made to bear a 
slander that does not belong to it. 

It may be well to remember also that it was on 
account of these Russian and Polish Jews, while 
they yet resided in Russia, that the United States 
broke off her trade treaty with that country—broke 
off with the Russia that was a country and a govern- 
ment before America was discovered; and, having by 
that act contributed to the Jewish throttle on Russia 
through Germany, it is now proposed that the 
United States, on account of these same Jews, enter 
into trade agreements with the present Russian tyr- 
anny. Verily, the diplomacy of Judah has come very 
near determining our foreign policy. If they were 
strong enough, in spite of President Taft’s refusal, to 
make us break with Russia, they may also be strong 
enough to make us shake hands with ‘Bolshevism. 

The Jewish trade union is exclusively Jewish for 
the reason that the trades affected are exclusively 
Jewish. That is, the Jewish trade union is not an 
American trade union, it is not a mixed trade union, 
it is Jewish. Like all other Jewish activities the 
purpose of the trade union is to advance Jewish 
interests alone. These unions are one aspect of 
United Israel. | 

This should be borne in mind with reference to 
the widespread strikes in the clothing trade and the 
rapid increase in the price of clothing to the 99,000,- 
000 non-Jews in the United States. In spite of all 
the strikes, the profits advanced enormously; it 
may be said that the strikes were essential to the 
advance of profits; and the country as a whole paid. 

Look at some of the figures of the “needle trades” 
before the war. In the entire United States, the 
men’s and women’s clothing manufactured in 1914 
had a value of $932,099,000. In New York alone, 
$542,685,000 was produced. The rest was preduced 
by the Jewish clothing centers in Chicago, Cleveland, 
New Jersey and Philadelphia. 


94 THE INTERNATIONAL JEW 


The figures for the period of the war and since 
will be staggering. Clothing in the regular trade 
began to mount in price, until at the end of the 
war in 1918, it had attained an increase of 200 
per cent and 300 per cent. Until well into 1920 the 
monopoly held up the price. This was done in face 
of the declaration by the manufacturers of cloth 
that the whole profiteering persistence was due to 
the manufacturers of clothing. Russian-Polish Jews, 
in this country only a few months, drew $50 to $80 
a week. Threats of strike were used to get a five 
per cent increase in wages, which was met by a 20 
per cent increase in the cost of clothing. The Amer- 
ican public paid. 

If, however, these statements were merely an at- 
tempt to arouse indignation that for once the work- 
ers got more than they earned, the attempt would be 
a failure. It is pretty hard to find anyone to regret 
the workers getting hold of a bonanza. The high 
wages weren’t of much use, as it proved, but people 
at least had the satisfaction of handling them. 

These statements are made to show that during 
the war the Jewish unions waxed fat, a fact which 
has a bearing on their Bolshevik attitude today. 
Not all the wage was the gain of the man who earned 
it—there was the union to pay. Girls in the fur 
trade in New York earned $55 a week,.of which they 
paid in $27.50 a week to the unions. Other workers 
paid in like proportion. There was great talk of 
what would be done. In Russia, of course, they had 
the government’s gold vaults immediately upon the 
success of the revolution, but in the United States 
the preliminary funds would have to be supplied by 
themselves. A great revolutionary stroke was 
planned of which the written evidence still remains. 

There are two divisions of Jewish wealth and 
power centering in New York. The first is German- 
Jewish, represented by the Schiffs, the Speyers, the 
Warburgs, the Kahns, the Lewisohns and the Gug- 
genheims. These play the game with the aid of 
the financial resources of the non-Jews. The other 
division is composed of the Russian and Polish Jews 


JEWISH HOT-BEDS OF BOLSHEVISM IN THE U. S. 95 


who monopolize the hat, cap, fur, garment and toy 
trades. (By the way—it is the Russian and Polish 
Jew who controls the American stage and movies 
also.) Between them their grip and influence is far 
from negligible. They may sometimes have inter- 
necine quarrels regarding the division of the profits 
and eager publicists may zealously call attention to 
these quarrels as evidence of the iack of unity among 
the Jews, but in the Kehillah and elsewhere they 
understand each other pretty well, and cn the ques- 
tion of Jew vs. “goy” they are indivisibly one. 

Between these two forces the attempt to hold up 
prices was continued until late in 1920. The heads 
of the Jewish clothing associations announced that 
the price of clothing would not be lowered. Solidly 
behind them were the associated Hebrew labor 
unions, so-called, which threatened dire things if the 
prices came down. The first great store to reduce 
prices in New York was Wanamaker’s, a non-Jewish 
house. In fact there was no reduction of prices 
among Jewish manufacturers and merchants gener- 
ally, until in the month of November less than a 
dozen Jews were called into the presence of a non- 
Jewish financier, after which a belated effort was 
made to save the buying market by sensational re- 
ductions. The Jewish controllers of the clothing 
business had just previously stated that not only 
would prices not go down, but the 1921 prices would 
go still higher. 

There is a distinction between what the Jewish 
coalition would do and what it could do, but its 
will and its power never so closely correspond as 
when the non-Jewish element is asleep, and never 
are Jewish will and power so widely divorced as 
when the non-Jewish mind is alert. When the non- 
Jewish financial mind made itself felt in November, 
1920, the bottom dropped out of Jewish trade proph- 
ecies and policies. The only thing to fear is not the 
alert Jew, but the consequences of sleepiness among 
the Christians. The Jewish Program is checked the 
moment it is perceived and identified. 

Ordinary people who for five years have been 


96 THE INTERNATIONAL JEW 


paying high tribute to the clothing trust are entitled 
to know who comprise that trust. But that is a | 
trifling affair compared with the political uses to 
which the clothing trust has been put in this country. 
The clothing trust, being composed exclusively of 
Jews, most of whom have formed the ax-head of 
Jewry in the fight against certain Old-World gov- 
ernments, is today the heart and center of a move- 
ment which, if successful, would leave not a shred 
of the Republic, its institutions, nor even the liberty, 
which is every American’s by inheritance. 

What is the strength of these people? How are 
they banded together? What are the facts con- 
cerning them? 

In New York City alone there are 2,760 Jewish 
cloak and suit manufacturing concerns; 1,200 Jewish 
clothing manufacturers; 2,880 Jewish ‘fur manufac- 
turers 5 ”600 Jewish skirt manufacturers; 600 manu- 
facturing tailoring establishments; 800 Jewish 
merchant tailoring concerns. 

These employers have organized themselves into 
associations such as the following: 


Associated Boys’ Clothing Manufacturers of 
Greater New York. 

Associated Fur Manufacturers. 

Associated Shirt Manufacturers. 

Association of Embroidery and Lace Manu- 
facturers. 

Children’s Dress Manufacturers’ Association. 

Cloak, Suit and Skirt Manufacturers’ Pro- 
tective Association. 

Cotton Garment Manufacturers of New York. 

Dress and Waist Manufacturers’ Association. 

East Side Retail Clothing Manufacturers’ 
Association. 

Ladies’ Hat Manufacturers’ Protective As- 
sociation. 

Mineral Water Dealers’ Protective Asso- 
ciation. 

National Association of Separate! Skirt | 
Manufacturers. 


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National Society of Men’s Neckwear Manu- 
facturers. 

New York Association of House Dress & Ki- 
mono Manufacturers. 

New York Tailors’ Verein. 

Shirt Manufacturers’ Protective Association. 


Among the employed Jews, the unions are nu- 
merous but all gathered up into one central organiza- 
tion. For example, the International Fur Workers’ 
Union of the United States and Canada, is made up 
of the following: 


Feather Boa Makers’ Union. 

Fur Cap Makers’ Union. 

Fur Cutters’ Union. 

Fur Dressers’ Union. 

Fur Dyers’ Union. 

Fur Floor Walkers’ Union. 

Fur Hatters’ Union. 

Fur Head and Tail Makers’ Union. 
Fur Lined Coat Finishers’ Union. 
Fur Nailers’ Union. 

Fur Operators’ Union. 

Fur Pluckers’ Union. 

Muff Bed Workers’ Union. 

In the garment industry, the organizations in- 
clude every operation in the process of making 
clothes. There are separate unions for buttonhole 
makers, vest makers, pants makers, coat cutters, 
coat operators, coat pressers, coat tailors, coat 
basters, lapel makers, knee pants makers, clothing 
turners, overall workers, palm beach workers, shirt 
makers, vest pressers, and even a washable sailor 
suit union. These together comprise the Amalga- 
mated Clothing Workers of America. 

In children’s clothing we have another complete 
organization : 

Children’s Jacket Makers (three unions). 
Children’s Jacket Pressers. 

Children’s Sailor Jacket Makers’ Union. 
Children’s Cloak and Reefer Workers’ Union. 
Children’s Dressmakers’ Union. 


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In women’s wear, there are unions organized 
around every garment known to the wardrobe, some 
of which are: 

Amalgamated Ladies’ Garment Cutters’ 
Union. 

Bonnaz, Singer and Hand Embroiderers’ 
Union. 

‘Buttonhole Makers and Button Sewers’ 
Union. 

Children’s Cloak and Reefer Workers’ Union. 

Cloak and Suit Tailors’ Union. 

Cloak and Suit Piece Tailors and Sample 
Makers’ Union. 

Cloak Examiners, Squarers and Bushelers’ 
Union. 

Cloak Makers’ .Union. 

Cloak Operators’ Union. 

Cloak, Skirt and Dress Pressers’ Union. 

Ladies’ and Misses’ Cloak Operators’ Union. 

Ladies’ Tailors Alteration & Special Order 
Union. ) 

Ladies’ Waist and Dressmakers’ Union. 

Skirt and Cloth Dressmakers’ Union. 

Waterproof Garment Workers’ Union. 

White Goods Workers’ Union. 

Wrapper, Kimono, House Dress and Bath 
Robe Makers’: Union. 

These unions comprise the International Ladies’ 
Garment Workers’ Union. 

The reader will have an idea, after reading these 
lists, that the employes represented in these unions 
are women. The majority are men. It may require 
something of an effort to remember that, but it is 
essential. These organizations control an essential 
business which before the war produced over One 
Billion Dollars’ worth of goods a year, and since 
the war has probably received for its products each 
year the amount of a big fat Liberty Loan; and these 
unions have received 30 to 40 per cent of that for 
wages and propaganda funds. 

Now, let it be said at once that these Jewish 
unions are not to be confused with the regular Labor 


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Union Movement, as we know it in the United States, 

They are not Jews who have gone into the Amer- 
ican trades unions. They have started unions of 
their own which are Jewish in membership, control 
and purpose. It is true, of course, that the regular 
trades union movement which heads up in the Amer- 
ican Federation of Labor is under the presidency 
of a Jew, Samuel Gompers, but the membership is 
mixed, the large majority being non-Jews, and the 
purpose is not racial. 

These Jewish unions comprise a body by them- 
selves and are to be reckoned with, not only as labor 
union groups, but as racial and political groups 
whose purposes can be determined by the character 
and utterances of their leaders, as well as by the 
actions authorized and approved by the unions them- 
selves. 

‘Now, this Hebrew union movement is a part of 
the New York Kehillah. Jewish leaders have sought 
to counteract Tur Dnarsporn INDEPENDENT’S account 
of Kehillah activities by saying that the Kehillah 
is such a little weak thing. Admittedly, however, 
the Jewish clothing trust and the Jewish garment 
workers’ unions are among the biggest and most 
powerful aggregations in the country. Not even a 
Jewish leader would have the temerity to deny that. 
Well, the Amalgamated Clothing Workers of Amer- 
ica and the International Ladies’ Garment Workers’ 
Union are affiliated with the Kehillah. 

More than that: this Kehillah, which Jewish 
spokesmen with cool contempt for truth would have 
the public believe was weak and unimportant—this 
same Kehillah, in its Haecutive Committee, con- 
stitutes The American Jewish Committee. 

Is the American Jewish Committee a nonentity? 
Ask any President of the United States, any Sena- 
tor or Governor. 

The American Jewish Committee heads up in 
District No. 12—New York City—and the Committee 
for District No 12 is also the Executive Committee 
of the Kehillah. | 

The men who represent before the world the 


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combined organizations mentioned in this article are 
the Kehillah, and they are the American Jewish 
Committee, and besides, they are the men whose 
failure in candor has left such an impression of dis- 
satisfaction throughout the masses of the Jewish 
people. 

Who are they? Who are these men with whom 
the Kehillah is said to be such a puling thing? 

Louis Marshall, of the law firm of Guggenheimer, 
Untermeyer and Marshall: Mr. Marshall is not only 
head of District No. 12, but he is also head of the 
American Jewish Committee. His headship of the 
A. J. C. makes him Jewish leader of the United 
States. His headship of District No. 12 makes him 
head of the New York Kehillah. Quite an impor- 
tant man? Yes; and an important place, in spite of 
lying Jewish spokesmen. 

Who are the others? Eugene Meyer, Jr., former- 
ly of the Capital Issues Committee of the United 
States war government. 

Who else? Judah L. Magnes. Judah L. Magnes 
is the organizer and active leader of the New York — 
Kehillah. The two bodies are linked up again. They 
are linked up by the Kehillah’s constitution which is 
able to decree that its executive committee shall be 
the American Jewish Committee as far as District 
No. 12 (New York City) is concerned. 

There are other names on the American Jewish 
Committee which also constitutes the executive com- 
mittee as the Kehillah—Adolph Lewisohn, Cyrus L. 
Sulzberger, Felix Warburg, and so on, 36 in all. 

In the current annual report of the American 
Jewish Committee this relation with the Kehillah 
is acknowledged in a note at the foot of page 123, 
just as in the constitution of the Kehillah its rela- 
tion with the A. J. C. is acknowledged and explained. 

Now to recapitulate. 

The Hebrew labor unions, both of employes and 
employers, which are in complete control of the 
garment industry of the United States, represent one 
wing of Jewish aggression in the realm of political 
revolutionism. It is not a small wing in itself. Cer- 


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tainly it does not become smaller by its connection 
with the Kehillah nor the Kehillah by its gain of 
these workers. The two unions mentioned above 
number over 337,000 members. That figure is con- 
servative. Besides these there are associated with 
the Kehillah the members of 1,000 other Jewish or- 
ganizations, such as synagogues, charitable societies 
and educational bodies, and 100,000 individual mem- 
bers who belong on their own account. 

Link this organization with the powerful Amer- 
ican Jewish Committee, and at once the protest of 
the editors and the spokesmen that the Kehillah is 
a weak, unimportant body becomes a deliberate false- 
hood. 

And as for those “Gentile fronts” who are ready 
victims of Jewish propaganda, and who, without 
personal knowledge, are describing the Kehillah as 
a large and flourishing charitable society (bad team- 
work there!) let them read in the next article what 
some of the Kehillah leaders are trying to do to the 
United States. 


Issue of April 16, 1921. 


Jew Trades Link With World 
Revolutionaries 


HERE are more Bolsheviks in the United States 
than there are in Soviet Russia. Their aim is 
the same and their racial character is the same. If 
they are not able to do here what they have done 
there, it is because of the greater dissemination of in- 
formation, the higher degree of intelligence and the 
wider diffusion of the agencies of governmental 
authority, than obtains in unhappy Russia. 

The power house of Bolshevik influence and 
propaganda in the United States is in the Jewish 
trade unions which, almost without exception, ad- 
here to a Bolshevik program for their respective in- 
dustries and for the country as a whole. 

This fact is proving most embarrassing to the 
Jewish leaders at the present moment. It is bad 
enough that Russian Bolshevism should be so pre- 
dominantly Jewish, but to confront the same situa- 
tion in the United States, is a double burden of 
which Jewish leaders do not know how to dispose. 

Yet it is difficult to see how the International 
Jew can be absolved either from the necessity of 
being confronted with it, or from the necessity of 
bearing sole responsibility for it. Russian Bolshe- 
vism came out of the Kast Side of New York where 
it was fostered by the encouragement—the religious, 
moral and financial encouragement—of Jewish lead- 
ers. Leon Trotsky (Braunstein) was an Kast Sider. 
Whether he was a member of the New York Kehillah 
is not known. But the forces which fostered what 
he stood for centered in the Kehillah, and both the 
Kehillah and its associated American Jewish Com- 
mittee were interested in the work he set out to do, 
namely, the overthrow of an established government, 
one of the allies of the United States in the recent 
war. Russian Bolshevism was helped to its objec- 


JEW TRADES LINK WITH WORLD REVOLUTIONARIES 103 


tive by Jewish gold from the United States. And 
now that it is found to be numerically much stronger 
in the United States than it is in Russia, the fact 
causes no little embarrassment. 

Denial is useless, for the thing is too blatant and 
has advertised itself too long. What amazes the 
student of the Jewish: Question in the United States 
is the stupidity which permitted Jewish Bolshevism 
to flaunt itself so openly during the past few years. 
The only explanation that seems at all adequate is 
that the Jews never dreamed that the American 
people would become sufficiently awake to challenge 
them. The present widespread exposure of Jewish 
tactics in the United States has doubtless come as 
a surprise to the Jewish leaders, and this cannot be 
accounted for otherwise than that they thought they 
had gained too strong a grip on the American mind 
to make a challenge possible. 

It remains to be seen whether the Jewish leaders 
shall be able to control the Frankenstein that their 
false policies have created. 

Following exactly the program which the Jewish 
leaders approved for Russia, the organized Jews of 
New York are exhibiting a zeal and a directness 
which Jewish leaders would like to curb for the 
present, if we are to judge from some of the com- 
plaints that the Bolshevik Jews are making. 

Benjamin Schlessinger, president of the Inter- 
national Garment Workers’ Union, whose member- 
ship numbers 150,000, and which is a part of the 
New York Kehillah, is one of the complainants. His 
union, of course, is not the regular American labor 
union formed for the betterment of working condi- 
tions and wages; it is a revolutionary union for the 
complete change of the social system, involving also 
a change of government. In an interview printed 
in the Jewish Forward of April 8, Schlessinger com- 
plains against the manner in which Jewish judges 
have recently come to interfere with Jewish strikes: 

“And Jewish judges come to their assistance. 
They issue injunctions; and it is said that they do 
it to save the Jewish name, so that it shall not be 


104 THE INTERNATIONAL JEW 


said that “all Jews are Bolshevists.” So the injunc- 
tions become a Jewish affair.... 

“We have a gigantic wide-branched Kehillah in 
New York. In all corners, Jews! All over, what 
you see and what you hear—Jews. And, of course, 
also dress; politicians and greater ones.’ 

“But only we may say this. And I understand 
Schlessinger .... Schlessinger explains it this way: 
Several reasons are given why judges like (here a 
Jewish judge is named) twist the law .... The real 
purpose is to break our strike .... But, then, after 
all, there is a reason, a Jewish reason. He wants 
to demonstrate to the American community, he 
claims, that not all Jews are Bolshevists.” 

This excerpt shows several things: that only 
“we” may say certain things; that Jewish authority 
is trying to cover the blemish of Bolshevism; and 
that this is done in order to demonstrate to “the 
American community” a certain desirable thing. 
The Jewish community, it is presumed, is not so 
easily impressed. The Kehillah is apparently trying 
to call in its kites but they have apparently flown 
too high in the rarefied atmosphere of revolutionism. 

Another big union which makes part of the New 
York Kehillah is the Amalgamated Clothing Work- 
ers of America, whose membership is about 200,000. 
It is officered by Russian Jews whose pronounced 
Bolshevik utterances have been widely reported in 
the Jewish press of New York, until plain and un- 
privileged Americans have wondered how far treason 
to the United States Government could go on our 
own soil. 

Sidney Hillman, the president, is one of the most 
radical Socialists in the United States—so radical 
that he would probably spurn the name of Socialist 
as ordinarily used. He is a Sovietist. He is so far 
“advanced” that to him the regular type of Ameri- 
can labor union is “a scab union.” The purpose of 
the American labor union is stated to be the im- 
provement of the workers’ condition in industry and 
the establishment of their industrial rights, whereas 
the object of Hillman’s union is the overthrow ot 





JEW TRADES LINK WITH WORLD REVOLUTIONARIES 105 


industry and its communization in the hands of the 
radical element. That is to say, Russia over again. 
Hillman was born in Russia. He personally knows 
most of the Bolshevik Jews now ruining that great 
land. 

The secretary of the Amalgamated is Joseph 
Schlossberg, also born in Russia. Schlossberg has 
a very free gift of words. One of his promises to 
his Jewish followers, publicly made at Madison 
Square Garden, is this: 

“The clothing industry is ours. We are not go- 
ing to permit the employer to determine where his 
factory shall be, or how many hours we shall work.” 

Abraham Shiplacoff, a Socialist member of the 
New York board of aldermen, and next to Sidney 
Hillman in command of the Amalgamated, is also 
a free speaker, as the following excerpt will show: 

“We are going to move heaven and earth to 
educate our people that they and they alone are 
the owners of industry. The workers of Rus- 
sia have found it out, God bless them! 

“Tf I knew old Sammy Gompers knew as much 
as that, I would tell you to go and do what the 
workers did in Turine. Ten thousand of them 
marched to the factory with music and a flag, 
and they opened the doors and went to work 
and said, ‘To hell with the owners of the fac- 
tory.’ 

“Kiverybody knows it is war. We are going 
to control the industry.” 

Always the omission, of course, that the fac- 
tories so spectacularly captured, cease to run soon 
after. The Hillmans and the Schlossbergs and the 
Shiplacoffs are heroic figures on the platform, but 
in manufacturing the common commodities of life 
and making both ends meet so that the consumer 
may be served and the producer rewarded, they have 
been the most tragic failures. “The workers of 
Russia have found it out, God help them!” 

As a matter of fact, besides the I. W. W., the 
Amalgamated is the only organization which not 
only preaches Bolshevism but actually practices it 


106 THE INTERNATIONAL JEW 


—all in the United States, and all apparently in 
perfect consistency with its membership in the 
Kehillah and under the officership of the high gentle- 
men of the American Jewish Committee. The Amal- 
gamated actually does run the industry which has 
muleted such a heavy tax from the American public 
since 1914. 

They tell the factory manager where the factory 
is to be located. 

They have a minimum wage of $12 a day, inde- 
pendent of skill or production. 

They enforce that rule, that an employe who has 
worked for two weeks has thereafter a job for life. 

No improved machinery can be introduced with- 
out the union’s permission. 

The employer cannot hire even a cartage firm 
that the union has not first approved. — 

The employer cannot withdraw from business 
unless he goes into bankruptcy, else the whole force 
of the union and its allies will be marshaled against 
him and his. He must inform the union of all his 
plans in advance. 

This, of course, is part of the endowment of 
Trotsky to the East Side. He did great missionary 
work there while waiting to go across and take the 
Czar’s place. Even to this day in the Jew-controlled 
theaters that crowd Broadway, the picture of 
Trotsky brings wild delirious cheering, while the 
portrait of the President of the United States is 
hissed. <A favorite stage scene is the Star of David 
high over all flags. The recent debate between 
Senators King and France, said to have been 
organized with the assistance of two rabbis, de- 
veloped into such an outrageously anti-American 
pro-Soviet demonstration, that prudence intervened _ 
to prevent a vote. Recently when pro-Jewish Ger- 
mans endeavored to stir up trouble by holding a 
great mass meeting to protest the alleged “Black 
horror on the Rhine,” the audience was packed with 
Jews. Not that they love Germany more, but they 
love any regular government less. While a few days 
later, at a great American meeting, the Jews of New 


JEW TRADES LINK WITH WORLD REVOLUTIONARIES 107 


York, according to the testimony of incredulous 
observers, were most conspicuous by their absence. 

Now, the Jewish leaders must admit that the 
Jewish Question does not consist in American citi- 
zens uncovering these facts and helping other Amer- 
ican citizens to become aware of them; the Jewish 
Question inheres in the facts themselves and in 
Jewish responsibility for the facts. If it is “anti- 
Semitism” to say that ‘Bolshevism in the United 
States is Jewish, so be it; but to unprejudiced minds 
it will look very like Americanism. — 

There is not a single, solitary American-born 
citizen serving as officer or director of those great 
unions which form part of the New York Kehillah. 
These men have not the faintest idea of what Amer- 
ica stands for. They are not here to become Ameri- 
canized, but to:change America to their own model. 
In this they have the articulated support of most of 
the Jewish rabbis who have been very keen to ex- 
plain that Americanization does not at all mean 
what the American means by it. 

America will have become what these people want 
it to be when America is sovietized with Jewish 
radicals in control, and that is the objective toward 
which they are working now. 

The other officers of the Amalgamated are Jacob 
Petowsky, secretary, who is a Russian Jew, and J. 
B. Salutsky, who is also a Russian Jew and “Na- 
tional Director of the Educational Department,” 
which means that he is the propagandist of the 
union in the United States. 

Regarding the assertion that the great radical 
unions are not officered by native-born citizens (the 
statement has been made that Russian Jews do not 
usually complete their citizenship but stop short at 
the “declaration of intention’), there is some inter- 
esting material in a study of 2,000 presidents of 
Jewish organizations in New York City. 

Of this number, 1,054 were born in Russia, 536 
in Austro-Hungary, 90 in Rumania, 64 in Germany 
and four in Palestine. These countries produced 
89.1 per cent of Jewish leaders in New York. 


108 THE INTERNATIONAL JEW 


Of this number, 531 entered the country between 
the ages of 14 and 21, and 977 entered over the age 
of 21. 

Of this number, 1,270 are still under 50 years of 
age. 
These figures include all organizations from syna- 
gogues to trade unions. 

How far they have been Americanized, or wish 
to be, can only be judged by the policies and activi- 
ties of the organizations which they direct. 

The big Jewish labor organizations ‘are the direct 
offspring of the Jewish Socialist Bund of Russia. It 
is due to the propaganda of the Bund in the United 
States that the united Hebrew trades have gone over 
to the ranks of radicalism. Bundists swarmed to the 
United States after the abortive revolution of 1905 
at which time they failed to put Bolshevism over in - 
Russia, and these Bundists gave their time to the ° 
Bolshevizing of the Hebrew Trade Unions in this 
country. An Agitation Bureau was formed which 
propagated radical Socialism through the medium 
of the Yiddish language, which is one of the official 
languages of the New York Kehillah, made so by 
the demands of the Kehillah’s overwhelming radical 
constituency. 

The Bundists incorporated in 1905 in New York 
an organization known as “The Workmen’s Circle” 
and “swelled the ranks of the Jewish trade unions,” 
to quote the Kehillah’s Register. After a brief at- 
tempt to propagate Socialism without reference to 
the Jewish Question, it was given up, and in 1915 
a resolution was adopted declaring that the whole 
purpose of the work was Jewish. This is attributed, 
in the Kehillah record, to the spread of “the idea of 
Jewish nationalism.” 

Now, care would have to be exercised to avoid 
confusion between the Hebrew labor unions, radical 
as they are, and the avowed communistic bodies, if 
it were not the fact that the unions and the Com- 
munists are so inextricably interlocked as to make 
distinctions unnecessary. 

That this is not a judgment dictated by mere ad- 


JEW TRADES LINK WITH WORLD REVOLUTIONARIES 109 


verse attitude may be seen from the following facts: 

The Workmen’s Circle has 800 branches through- 
out the United States and is officered by Jews 
throughout. The membership is 98 per cent foreign- 
born and is Jewish in like proportion. 

Among the higher officers of this organization are 
_ Joseph Schlessinger, Sydney Hillman, Benjamin 
_ Schlossberg, Sam Feinstein and J. B. Salutsky. The 
names will probably have become familiar to the 
reader by this time. They form part of the inter- 
locking directorate so commonly found among Jew- 
ish organizations, a system which finally heads up 
in the executive committee of the Kehillah which also 
composes the leaders of the American Jewish Com- 
mittee, of which the great public lights of Jewry 
are members. 

Schlessinger is president of the Union of Ladies’ 
Garment Workers, and made a trip to Russia in be- 
half of communism in the United States, to finance 
which the members of the Communist party were 
assessed $1.50 each. 

Hillman is president of the Amalgamated Cloth- 
ing Workers of America. 

Schlossberg is secretary of the Amalgamated 
Clothing Workers of America. 

Feinstein is secretary of the United Hebrew 
Trades. 

Salutsky is food commissar to the striking Amal- 
gamated, and is national director of Bolshevik 
propaganda carried on by his crowd. 

They are, of course, all Jews. 

The line-up is this: Hebrew trade union leaders 
are also members of the Workmen’s Circle and of 
the Communist party, and the majority of their 
trade union followers go with them into the other 
associations. The reverse process is this: Commun- 
ism and radical Bolshevism then find their way to 
the consciousness of the American public by the 
Bolshevik demands of the so-called trade unions of 
Jewry. 

An extreme defense of all this activity might be 
that these Jewish leaders and workers are only 


110 THE INTERNATIONAL JEW 


enamored of the idea of Bolshevism, are playing with 
it academically, and are not to be considered as 
actively the proponents of a form of government 
contrary to the Constitution of the United States 
and to be established by “direct action.” 

This defense, however, appears insufficient when 
confronted by another set of facts in which these . 
same union leaders and Communists are shown to 
be in communication with the Soviet government in 
the United States—and the Soviet government in the 
United States is not a mere idea, it is a program. 
Moscow has repeatedly stated that the purpose of 
the Lenin-Trotsky government has been World 
Revolution. And one reason for the colossal econom- 
ic failure of the Soviet governmental experiment 
has been the Jewish Soviet leaders’ neglect of their 
proper work to follow this fetish of World Revolu- 
tion. If one-tenth the effort had been made to 
govern and feed Russia that has been made to sow 
Bolshevik ideas in other countries, Russia might to- 
day have been in a less unhappy plight. Propaganda 
is the sole art which the Bolsheviks have mastered. 

This Soviet government in the United States, 
therefore, must be regarded as an advance post of 
World Revolution. It is so regarded by those who 
know anything about it. It is so regarded by those 
who ordered the deportation of L. C. A. K. Martens, 
the “Soviet Ambassador.” Martens was announced 
to be here for the purpose of opening up trade rela- 
tions with the United States. He had a vast fund 
of gold—indeed, it was to explain his gold hoard 
that he used the story about trade relations. The 
Government of the United States judged, however, 
that his purpose here was World Revolution—and 
the government was right. | 

Martens has departed but the Soviet Embassy 
remains. Ag stated in a former article, Martens’ 
successor is Charles Recht, who is a Russian Jew 
about 36 years of age. In the same building with 
Recht is Isaac A. Hourwich, another Russian Jew 
and attorney, whose office is supposed to be the head- 


JEW TRADES LINK WITH WORLD REVOLUTIONARIES 111 


quarters whence proceeds much of the Russian Bol- 
shevik propaganda. 

Now, the people who go to the offices of Recht 
and Hourwich are the same people whose names we 
have been tracing all through this interlocker, with 
some notable additions. Into the sanctum of am- 
bassadorial Bolshevism in the United States, come, 
of course, Recht the representative and Hourwich 
the attorney for Lenin and Trotsky in this country. 

Another caller is Judah L. Magnes, head of the 
New York Kehillah. He is a rabbi without a syna- 
gogue, an extreme extremist, a master of the lan- 
guage of agitation, and pro-Bolshevist in his in- 
fluence and associations. He is credited with being 
the mediator between rich Jews and radicals when 
the latter are in need of funds. This is the Judah 
L. Magnes, head of the Kehillah, who tried to tell 
New York newspaper reporters what a weak and 
innocent foundling the New York Kehillah is; the 
same Judah L. Magnes whom the American Hebrew 
tried to picture as a diaphanous idealist broken- 
hearted because the ghetto doesn’t fall in with his 
educational schemes. The Kehillah is not an educa- 
tional institution; it is not a welfare institution in 
the charitable sense; it is a nerve-center of Jewish 
power; in Rabbi Magnes’ own words, “a clearing 
house”; and if it amounted to nothing politically 
and nationally, the men who are now prominent in 
it would soon desert it. Kehillah is just what the 
word signifies—the whole Jewish community. 

Then, of course, there are Benjamin Schlessinger 
again, president of the Ladies’ Garment Workers, 
and Sydney Hillman, president of the Amalgamated 
Clothing Workers, and Joseph Schlossberg, another 
Amalgamated official whose Bolshevik utterances 
were quoted earlier in this article, and others of 
the Hebrew trades crowd whose radical relationships 
have been shown. 

In addition, there are certain immigration in- 
spectors from Ellis Island—all Jews, of course; 
occasionally a courier from Russia who has slipped 
into the country for a secret purpose; occasionally 


142 THE INTERNATIONAL JEW 


also a courier to Russia bearing messages from Recht 
and Hourwich. 

Then I. W. W. leaders—Jews. Among them 
Baletin, secretary of the I. W. W. Metal Machinery 
Workers’ Branch, and Peltner, joint secretary of the 
I. W. W. branches in New York. 

In close touch with these Jewish radicals are a 
number of revolutionists of other countries, repre- 
senting various violent programs against the estab- 
lished order. 

It is through the office of Charles Recht that pass- 
ports, issued by the State Department of the govern- 
ment of the United States, are being viséed. This 
statement refers to a regular practice known to have 
been followed until a few days preceding this writ- 
ing, and there is no reason to believe it has since 
been altered. Ambassador Recht, or Acting Ambas- 
sador Recht, or whatever he may be called, is in 
close touch with Soviet authorities and has full 
notice of all their intentions regarding American 
affairs. 

A frequent subject of conferences in Recht’s 
office is the Soviet propaganda in America. Men 
like Hillman and Schlossberg and Schlessinger are 
merely liaison officers between the Soviets and the 
Hebrew trades unions. The orders received from 
Moscow are thus transmitted to the Jews in Ameriea, 
and are obeyed along perfectly defined lines. 

Of course, Rabbi Magnes, head of the New York 
Kehillah, could hardly be expected to remain in 
ignorance of what the whole Kehillah knows. And 
that Magnes is temperamentally a radical, any two- 
minute perusal of his speeches will show. He is 
head of what Schlessinger calis the “gigantic, wide- 
branched Kehillah,” the foremost political racial 
organization in this country, a close community of 
a Single racial type which has its own code and its 
own customs and its own method of gaining its ends. 

This is not the whole story by any means. Schles- 
singer and Schlossberg and Hillman and the rest 
are leaders, but they are not the higher-ups. The 
eonnections run straight up to the lofty heights of 


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those who dwell in palaces and sway the finances 
of the nation, and to those who play large parts in 
the government of the United States. The Jews 
who finance radical publications—good conservative 
Jews who form the standing illustration in the argu- 
mentative question, “What possible gain can they 
hope from Bolshevism?” Jews who pull official 
wires to gain immunity and privilege for known 
traitors and revolutionists. Jews who replenish the 
coffers of dangerous elements. It is a long story, 
and all of it does not require telling, for the point to 
be gained is not that everyone should be told, but 
that the involved persons should be aware that it 
is known, proved, safely put away, in hope that the 
occasion to use it may never come. However, it is 
due the public to tell at least a part of it. 

The Jewish leaders never played so stupid a card 
as when they endeavored to minimize the Kehillah 
and the place it fills. Nor did their Gentile echoes 
ever fall for so miserable an imposition, 


Issue of April 23, 1921. 


LI. 


Will Jewish Zionism Bring 
Armageddon? 


HEN the British Army passed into Jerusalem 

in the memorable capture of the city in 1917, 
the Protocols went in with it. A symbolic circle 
was thus closed, though not in the way the Pro- 
tocolists had hoped. The man who carried the 
Protocols knew what they signified, and they were 
carried not in triumph but as the plans of the 
enemies of world liberty. 

Zionism is the best advertised of all present 
Jewish activities and has exerted a greater infiu- 
ence upon world events than the average man re- 
alizes. In its more romantic aspects it makes an 
appeal to Christian as well as to Jew, because there 
are certain prophecies which are held to concern 
the return of the Jews to Jerusalem. When this 
return takes place, certain great events are sched- 
uled to ensue. | 

‘Because of this admixture of the religious senti- 
ment, it will be rather difficult for a certain class 
of people to scrutinize modern Political Zionism; 
they have been too well propagandized into believing 
that political Zionism and the “return” promised by 
the prophets are the same thing. Having succumbed 
to the initial confusion of mistaking Judah for Israel 
they have entirely mistaken the ancient writings 
that relate to these two, and have made the single 
tribe of Judah (whence comes the name of Jew) the 
hub around which all history and humanity swing. 
Judah was the tribe with which Israel could not 
live in peace over two thousand years ago, and 
which has the fateful gift of stirring up the same 
kind of dissension today. And yet no one ever 
thought of charging the Ten Tribes of Israel with 
“anti-Semitism.” 

Zionism is challenging the attention of the world 


WILL JEWISH ZIONISM BRING ARMAGEDDON? 115 


today because it is creating a situation out of which 
many believe the next war will come. To adopt a 
phraseology familiar to students of prophecy, it is 
believed by many students of world affairs that 
Armageddon will be the direct result of what is 
now beginning to be manifested in Palestine. 

For. these, if for no other reasons, the subject 
becomes important. 

With Zionism as a dream of pious Jews this 
article has nothing to do. With Zionism as a polit- 
ical fact, every first class government is now com- 
pelled to have something to do. It is a bigger ques- 
tion than the German indemnities or American im- 
migration, because it lies back of both, and is rapid- 
ly proceeding under cover of both. 

It is worthy of note, if only in passing, that 
Zionism in the ‘active modern political sense took its 
rise racially and geographically where Bolshevism 
arose, namely, in Russia, and that its center, the 
seat of its Inner Actions Committee, was at Berlin. 
There was always a close relationship between the 
Zionists of Russia and the New York Kehillah, as 
is evidenced by public utterances made in Russia 
after the Revolution in which the Kehillah is ex- 
tolled. 

At the time the war was declared in 1914, the 
Inner Actions Committee was spread about in vari- 
ous countries. For example: Dr. Schmarya Levin, 
of Berlin, was in the United States and remained 
here. He was Russian rabbi, German scholar, and 
cosmopolitan. Although his headquarters were Ber- 
lin, he remained in the United States and became 
recognized as the leader of the leaders of Zionism, 
until the great Jewish shift to Versailles. Another 
member of the Inner Actions Committee was one 
Jacobson, who was in Constantinople. “When he 
saw that Constantinople could no longer be the 
center of Zionist politics, he left and went to Copen- 
hagen, Denmark, where in a neutral country he 
could be of practical usefulness to the Zionists by 
transmitting information and funds.” (Guide to 
Zionism, page 80.) In fact, the entire Inner Actions 


116 THE INTERNATIONAL JEW 


Committee, with headquarters at Berlin, moved 
freely through a war-locked world, the only two 
exceptions being Warburg and Hantke—and there 
was no need for the Berlin Warburg to move about, 
for there were others who represented him. 

Dr. Levin gave his sanction for the shifting of 
the center of Jewish gravity from Berlin to America, 
and “as early as August 30, 1914, a month after the 
outbreak of war, an extraordinary conference of 
American Zionists was called in New York.” 

What this change of seat meant, has formed the 
subject of much discussion. In 1914 the Jews appar- 
ently knew more about the probable duration of the 
war than did the principals. It was not to be a 
mere excursion through Belgium, as some fancied. 
There was time to dicker, time to show the value 
of certain Jewish support to the governments. 
Germany gladly pledged the land of Palestine to 
the Jews, but the Jews had already seen what Wil- 
helm had done in that ancient state when he en- 
throned himself on the Mount of Olives. Evidently 
the Allies won in the contest of making promises, for 
on November 2, 1917, when General Allenby was 
pushing up through Palestine with his British Army, 
Arthur James Balfour, the British secretary of state 
for foreign affairs, issued the famous declaration 
approving Palestine as a national home for the Jew- 
ish people. | 

“The wording of it came from the British foreign 
office, but the text had been revised in the Zionist 
offices in America as well as in England. The Brit- 
ish declaration was made in the form in which the 
Zionists desired it, and the last clauses were added 
in order to appease a certain section of timid anti- 
Aionist opinion.” (Guide to Zionism, pages 85-86.) 

Now please read the declaration and note the 
italicized clauses just referred to: 

“His Majesty’s Government view with favor 
the establishment in Palestine of a national 
home for the Jewish people and will use their 
best endeavors to facilitate the achievement of 
this object, it being clearly understood that 


WILL JEWISH ZIONISM BRING ARMAGEDDON? vg Fs 


nothing shall be done which may prejudice the 
civil and religious rights of non-Jewish commun- 
ities in Palestine, or the rights and political 
status enjoyed by Jews in any other country.” 

Zionism is of particular interest, not merely be- 
cause of the quarfels which have arisen among the 
leaders over money—it is the war of “interest” 
against “capital’—but also because of the light it 
throws on the two great armies of Jews in the 
world, the way in which they use their power where 
they can, and the trouble that always embroils the 
nations which become Jewish tools. 

People sometimes. ask why Jewry, which is cap- 
italistic, should favor Bolshevism, which is the 
announced enemy of capital. It is an interesting 
question. Why should a New York Jewish financier, 
an officer of the government of the United States, 
help finance a “Red” publication which even our 
tolerant government cannot stomach? In addition to 
the fact that it is only “Gentile capital” that is 
attacked, the answer is that the Jew who has fallen 
for the worship of the Golden Calf is anxious to 
keep in the good graces of the Jew of the East—the 
Mongolian Jews—who are rampaging against order- 
ly systems of society. It is quite useful when there 
is a revolution in Paris to have the 600 houses which 
you may own spared by the incendiary mobs—as 
were Rothschild’s houses. Zionism has been one 
of the subjects upon which Western and Eastern 
Jew can unite. Indeed, it was the Eastern Jew that 
compelled the Western Jew to take a favorable 
stand on this matter. The Jewish gentlemen who 
are receiving the freedom of our cities today in 
their various aspects as “German” and “British” 
scientists are Eastern Jews. They have come to a 
contest with the Jews of America on the question 
of Money. The Jews of America have smothered 
some very ugly charges. The Jews of the East, 
more recently of Germany or England, are not likely 
to be browbeaten by the moneybags of Jewish New 
York, for the Hastern type of Jew knows of @ situa- 
tion in which money is the most useless thing in 


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118 THE INTERNATIONAL JEW 


the world—and that is why he is feared and favored 
by Western Jewry of the Golden Calf. 

The Jewish defenders are just now capitalizing 
the “split” in Jewry. The real split in Jewry will 
come when Jews of vision begin to support the 
attempts which have been made to liberate the Jews 
from their leaders. This internal squabble means 
nothing but a squabble of leaders; but when the 
Jews themselves divide, one side for twentieth cen- 
tury light and the destruction of the class power 
of selfish leaders, then may we look up hopefully. 
When the Jew recognizes the honesty of his critics 
and the righteousness of what they charge, then will 
there be a “split,” but not before. The division in 
Jewry as evidenced by the contempt of the revolu- 
tionary party for the financial party, and as even 
more strongly evidenced by the fear of the revolu- 
tionary party by the financial party, is being brought 
about by the insincerity of the Western Jew’s Zion- 
ism. The Western Jew says that the United States 
is the Promised Land, profits and interest are the 
“milk and honey” and New York is Jerusalem; the 
Jew of Russia has another view. 

A knowledge of Political Zionism is worth while 
also as an authoritative illustration of what the Jew 
does when he is in power. Heretofore there has been 
Russia to illustrate this, but now there is Palestine. 
With every fact against them, with every traveler 
and observer giving them the lie direct, there are 
still Jewish spokesmen and poor befuddled “Gentile 
fronts” who insist that Bolshevism is not Jewish and 
that Russia is not now governed by Jews. It is 
just this constant denial of facts, this failure to use 
their opportunity to be honest, that is going to be 
the judgment of Jewish leaders. Bolshevism all 
over the world, not in Russia only, but in New York, 
in Chicago, in New Orleans, in San Francisco, is 
Jewish. / 

However, there is no need further to insist upon 
that, except occasionally to add confirmatory illus- 
trations of it. More to the present point is Palestine. 
It will be very difficult for the most irresponsible 


WILL JEWISH ZIONISM BRING ARMAGEDDON? 119 


Jewish spokesman to deny that Palestine is Jewish. 
The government is Jewish, the plan of procedure is 
Jewish, the methods used are Jewish. Does anyone 
rise to ‘deny that? Scarcely. 

Very well, Palestine will do to illustrate the 
genius of the Jew when he comes to power. 

Professor Albert T. Clay, in the Atlantic Monthly 
(will anyone declare that this long-established and 
thoroughly respectable Boston publication is “anti- 
Semitic” ?) warns us that the information about Pal- 
estine which we receive in America comes to us 
through the Jewish Telegraph Service (which is the 
Associated Press of world-wide Jewry) and the Zion- 
ist propaganda. “The latter,” he says, “with its 
harrowing stories of pogroms in Europe, and its 
misrepresentations of the situation in the Near Hast, 
has been able to awaken not a little sympathy for 
the Zionist propaganda.” 

This propaganda of pogroms—‘thousands upon 
thousands of Jews killed”’—amounts to nothing 
except as it illustrates the gullibility of the press. 
No one believes this propaganda, and governments 
regularly disprove it. But the fact that it contin- 
ues indicates that something besides facts is neces- 
sary to keep the scheme going. 

In Jerusalem, as this is being written, martial 
law is proclaimed. There has been a struggle be- 
tween the native inhabitants, whom the Balfour 
declaration sought to protect, and the new-come 
Jews. As in the famous Easter disorders of last 
year, the wounded in the hospitals show that the 
Jews were armed and the natives fought with what- 
ever weapons they could find on the spot; the con- 
clusion of all impartial observers under the circum- 
stances being that the Jews prepared for and sought 
the fight, with unprepared natives. 

The mark of disorder perpetrated by the Jews 
is all over the place, the “persecuted” turned perse- 
cutor, and lest this should be charged to the general. 
wildness of the people in Palestine let it be said 
that the rioters were only expressing in deeds what 
cultivated American and English Jews have ex- 


120 THE INTERNATIONAL JEW 


pressed in words—namely, that the lawful inhab- 
itants of the land ought to be driven out, in spite 
of governmental promises to the contrary. One of 
the first Easter rioters, Jabotinsky, whom the Brit- 
ish authorities sentenced to 15 years in prison, was 
released immediately upon the arrival of Sir Herbert 
Samuel, and is now traveling in state, and is talked 
of as a possible successor to Sir Herbert, although 
he is originally one of the Russian Bolsheviki come 
down to practice the gentle arts of that tribe in 
Palestine. 

The government is Jewish. Sir Herbert Samuel 
is High Commissioner, representing the power of 
the ‘British Government, which holds the mandate 
over Palestine. The head of the judicial department, 
who appoints the judges of Palestine, is a Jew. 
Christian or Moslem judges who do not give the 
Jews qa shade the better of the proceedings are ousted 
—a condition not unknown in New York. Chaim 
Weizmann is head of the department of works—he 
is a Jew, now traveling in this country and having 
the polite lie passed to him occasionally by Judge 
Julian W. Mack. In fact, at the heads of all depart- 
ments are Jews, a former New York Jew being head 
of the department of immigration, who has made 
splendid rules for the protection of Palestine from 
an undesirable class of Jews, rules so well adapted 
for the purpose that if the Congress of the United 
States should adopt them the cry of “persecution” 
would girdle the world. 

It is to be noted that the Jewish government of 
Palestine is very much like that of Russia—mostly 
foreign. Trotsky came from the East Side of New 
York. A gentleman recently released from Bol- 
shevik custody told the writer that the governor of 
his prison was an ordinary Jew who formerly lived 
on Fourteenth street, Detroit. Practically every 
big American city is represented in the Bolshevik 
government of Russia. There is another full-fledged 
government waiting in this country for service 
wherever necessary. 

The methods being adopted to get the land are 


WILL JEWISH ZIONISM BRING ARMAGEDDON? 121 


such as will fill the world with indignation once the 
world fully understands what is being done. And 
that it is done with the knowledge and approval of 
the Zionist Commissioner is indicated by the fact 
that he suspended the activities of the British officer 
who endeavored to stop the abuse. It was the old 
game of lending money at an exorbitant rate of 
interest to people hard pressed by war and crop 
failure, and then seizing their land when they could» 
not pay. The bank that did this was the Anglo- | 
Palestine Bank, a Zionist concern. This British 
officer, to save the people and the land, made ar- 
rangements with a British bank to lend them money 
at 614 per cent, with five years to pay. If payment 
failed, the land was to go to the government for 
redistribution, not to the Zionist bank. This was the 
humane plan which the Zionist Commissionér for- 
bade, whereupon the British officer resigned. Some 
effort was afterward made to redress the terrible 
act, but there it stands as the well-considered action 
of Jewry in power. 

Then follows what is described by every impartial 
observer as an “arrogant” attempt to expropriate 
everything in sight. In Russia it could have been 
done very easily under the plea of “nationalization,” 
but there was Great Britain whose laws do not con- 
done theft. The only schools that have been estab- 
lished in Jerusalem have been built and manned by 
the so-called “Gentiles,” although the Jews of Jeru- 
salem have been the pensioners of world-wide Jewry 
for centuries. As long ago as 1842 Dr. Murray 
M’Cheyne noted that the Jerusalem Jews cared noth- 
ing for schools because their children were only 
growing up into pensioners too. But Christians, with 
a warm regard for the Holy City, set about to im- 
prove the miserable condition of the Jewish inhabit- - 
ants, and thus it came that at the time of the Zion- 
ist invasion a considerable number of Jewish chil- 
dren were in attendance at the schools. The new-come 
Zionist leaders demanded that the best of the schools 
be given np to them. Of course, this was refused. 

“The Council of Jerusalem Jews” then caused it 


122 THE INTERNATIONAL JEW 


to be published in the Hebrew daily that parents 
who did not withdraw their children from the 
schools would be punished. And now look at the 
typical punishments threatened : 

If any parent refused whose name was on the list 
of the American Relief Fund, the relief would be 
withdrawn. An interesting bit of news to sub- 
scribers to that fund. 

Doctors would be forbidden to visit the families 
that had children attending the enlightened schools. 

Their names would be sent to the blacklist at the 
places where circumcision was performed, so that 
new-born descendants of the recalcitrants might be 
refused the rite of Moses. 

They would be denied all share in Zionist bene- 
fits or funds. 

if they were in business, they would be boycotted. 

Ir they were workmen, they could get no work. 

“Anyone who refused, let him know that it was 
forbidden for him to be called by the name of Jew. 
They will be fought by all lawful means. Their 
names will be put upon a monument of shame and 
_ their deeds made to reproach them to the last gen- 

eration. If they are supported, their support will 
cease. If they are rabbis, they will be moved far 
from their office. They shall be put under the ban 
and persecuted, and all the world will know that in: 
this justice there has been no mercy.” 

It is the Jewish 'Bolshevist spirit all over again, 
that spirit which so many people have been vainly 
endeavoring to reconcile with the Russian tem- 
perament—because it is so un-Russian. 

It is tyranny, and not the tyranny of strength, but 
of meanness and darkness. It is now perfectly clear 
what was meant by Dr. McInnis, who is Anglican 
Bishop of Jerusalem, when he said: “The emigrants 
so far brought in (to Palestine, under the Commis- 
sion) did not include many respectable English 
Jews; but they did include a great number of Rus- 
sians, Poles and Rumanians, many of them thor- 
aed Bolshevik in their attitude to the govern- 
ment. 


WILL JEWISH ZIONISM BRING ARMAGEDDON? 123 


If this spirit obtains at the beginning of a move- 
ment which the Christian world has been taught by 
propaganda to regard as a profoundly religious and 
- respectable exodus, it burdens the imagination to 
forecast what will be done in a period of full and un- 
questioned rule. 

Observing and weighing the events and tendencies 
of Jewish rule thus far in Palestine, it is not diffi- 
cult to see the purpose in it all. The Jews still dis- 
trust their ability to make a State. They do not dis- 
trust the world’s willingness to let them have a 
State; indeed, it is amazing how naturally the Jews 
place confidence in that portion of the world they 
have always affectéd to despise. But deep-seated in 
the Jew is a distrust of himself. He doesn’t know 
how his people will contrive to live together. He 
doesn’t know how they will contrive to drop the 
principles and practices which are so destructive of 
social comity elsewhere. And he feels that, patient 
as the mandatory power may be now, it is doubtful 
how long that patience will hold out under the blun- 
ders and brutalities that will be inseparable from 
Zionist rule, if any deductions can be drawn from 
the facts at hand. Therefore, feeling that the time 
may be short, he is endeavoring by such actions as 
interference with the cultural question, with the 
racial rights of the natives, and by such schemes as 
the land-grabbing device described above, to get so 
strong a hold on the situation as will seriously com- 
plicate it whenever-Great Britain shall feel it to be 
her duty to the world to step in and attempt to bring 
some kind of order out of the chaos. 

It begins to be very clear that Jewish national- 
ism will develop along the line of enmity to the rest 
of the world. Already the dangerous proposal has 
been made to organize a Jewish army for the pro- 
tection of the Suez Canal. Instead of thinking of 
roads and farmsteads, of vineyards and oil presses, 
of schools and sanitary villages, the Jews are think- 
ing of elevating themselves into the military power 
that shall stand between East and West on that 
most strategic strip of ground in the world. The 


ay THE INTERNATIONAL JEW 


‘ whole situation is fraught with danger, and men 


' who wish well to the Jews are alarmed and saddened 


‘by the prospect. 

There are three elements of danger in the situa- 
. tion as it exists today: the overwhelmingly predom- 
inant Bolshevik element that is being poured into 
Palestine; the intense, egotistic and challenging 
-nationalism that Zionists exhibit even before they 
. get a potato patch—the taste for world politics and 
‘world power; and the ragial confusion which now 
- exists in Palestine. 

These combined are dynamite. The first is more 
vital than many realize. Already the Jews who 
‘have gone to Palestine at great. sacrifice and for 
pious reasons are complaining that instead of the 
, Psalms of David the people are singing songs of 
the Red Revolution, and instead of meeting for in- 
struction and prayer there are riotous gatherings 
extolling Trotsky as Messiah and the Soviet as the 
‘kingdom of heaven. On the third anniversary of 
‘the Jewish Revolution in Russia, the streets of 
_ Jerusalem were placarded with sentiments of blas- 
.phemy and treason, and May Day this hag was 
‘devoted to the exaltation of anarchy. 

This fact will be of interest to students of proph- 
-ecy. It is as certain as any human forecast can 
_be that this sort of thing will not be permitted to 
_go forward in the face of the world. It is unimagin- 
able that the nations responsible to humanity for 
the conduct of that important strip of territory will 
remain supine while Bolshevism spreads under the 
false pretense of a religious movement favored by 
Christendom. An attempt will be made to stop it. 
The Jews of Palestine will turn on their sponsor 
nation. The Jews of Russia will come down to help. 
Great Britain and perhaps the United States will 
defend the old pure vision of a Jerusalem redeemed. 
Then will come to pass the prophecy of Zachariah: 
“And Judah also shall fight against Jeru- 
salem.” 

Judah also! It is a thought to make a Jew be- 

think himself where the lawlessness of the East and 


WILL JEWISH ZIONISM BRING ARMAGEDDON? 125 


the materialism of the West will lead him. Against 
Jerusalem! What a terrible ending of Judah’s 
present mad delusion. 

Palestine has been called the center of the earth. 
It is. The power that controls Palestine controls 
the world. Although exercising no sovereignty 
over the land itself, Great Britain’s control of adja- 
_ cent waters and of Egypt and Persia and India, 
forms the key of her power. The white race has thus 
far been the Chosen People to whom the dominion 
of the earth has been given. Palestine is the key to 
world military strategy and trade. In question 12 
of the Questions and Answers published by the de- 
partment of education, Zionist Organization of 
America, this occurs: 

12. What are the commercial possibilities of 
Palestine? 

Thé location of Palestine between the three 
continents favors foreign trade. 

All this lends itself to dreams of future glory, 
and many Christian friends of the Jew have pleased 
themselves by conceiving an universal Hague at Jeru- 
salem and a new social order going out to bless the 
nations from Zion. It is the idea conveyed by men 
like A. A. Berle in books like “The World Signifi- 
cance of a Jewish State.” All this might be expected 
if the Jews of today were Old Testament people, 
anxious to re-establish the social laws of Moses, 
which are conceded to be the best safeguards ever 
devised against pauperism on the one hand and 
plutocracy on the other. But Palestine has not 
fallen into the hands of that sort of Jews. Before 
the dream can be fulfilled Judah must come to 
himself, as he has not yet, for from of old the Word 
is— 

“And Judah also shall fight against Jerusalem.” 

The racial situation in Palestine just now is 
very delicate. Americans do not understand it. 
The Zionist propaganda has always been accepted 
on the assumption that Palestine is the Jews’ land 
and that they only need help to go back. It is an 
historical and political fact that Palestine has not 


126 THE INTERNATIONAL JEW 


been the Jews’ land for more than 2,000 years. 
There are in Palestine 500,000 Moslems, 105,000 
Christians and 65,000 Jews. The industry of the 
land is agriculture. Engaged in this are 69 per cent 
of the Moslems, 46 per cent of the Christians and 
19 per cent of the Jews. Neither numerically nor 
industrially have they held the land. Yet, as the 
result of a war bargain, it is handed over to them 
as regardless of the native inhabitants as if Belgium 
had been handed over to Mexieo. Many of the 
natives are Semites, like the Jews, but they do not 
want the Jews among them. 

That is a strange fact for those who use the term 
“anti-Semitism”; why do real Semites also dislike 
the Jews? Surely Semites are not victims of “anti- 
Semitism.” 

The Balfour Declaration, as well as the terms of 
the Mandate adopted at San Remo, recognized the 
rights of the native races. Indeed, everyone who 
knows about the people who have been native to 
Palestine for 2,000 years recognizes their rights, 
everybody except the Jews. Bethlehem was a 
Christian town, as befits the birthplace of Christ. 
Yet the Jews have contrived that 2,000 Bethlehem- 
ites leave Palestine rather than submit to what 
they see coming. The other races are not so placid 
about it, hence the trouble. It is now that the last 
clauses, added as the Zionist historian declares, “in 
order to appease a certain section of anti-Zionist 
opinion,” begin to get a meaning for the reader. 
Was the purpose only to quiet disturbing questions 
until all the arrangements were made? Evidently. 
It was then a dishonest appeasement! Such may 
have been the Zionists’ intention, but no one need ex- 
pect perjury on the part of the responsible nations. 
The end of the matter will see those last clauses 
, redeenied by honest application of their terms to 
the people involved. 

General Allenby promised those native races 
of Palestine that their rights would be respected. 
So did the Balfour Declaration. So did the San 


WILL JEWISH ZIONISM BRING ARMAGEDDON? 127 


Remo Conference. So also did President Wilson 
in the twelfth of his Fourteen Points. 

But Judah says, “Let them get out!” “The last 
clauses were added in order to appease a certain 
section of timid anti-Zionist opinion.” 

“Let them get out!” says Israel Zangwill. “We 
must gently persuade them to ‘trek.’ After all, they 
have all Arabia with its million square miles, and 
Israel has not a square inch. There is no particular 
reason for the Arabs to cling to those few kilo- 
meters.» To fold their tents and silently to steal 
away is their proverbial habit; let them exemplify it 
now.” Aside from the falsity of using the term 
* “Arab,” there is the delightful Jewishness of it— 
let them give it up to us, we want it! Americans 
have been in their land less than 150 years as a 
nation, and there is China and Arabia or Siberia 
for us to go to if we should want to, but we prefer 
our own country, and so do the native races of 
Palestine, who have dwelt there for 2,000 years. 

The watchmen on the towers of the world are 
alarmed at what seems brewing in Judah’s geograph- 
ical caldron, 


Issue of May 28, 192}. 


LI. 


How the Jews Use Power—By an 
Eyewitness 


‘TBE Jewish Question continues to mount the 

scale of public attention, attracting ever a 
higher type of mind to the discussion of its signifi- 
cance. When THE DEARBORN INDEPENDENT first be- 
gan to print some of the results of its research into 
the Question, the initial response was largely from 
those who disliked the Jew because he was a Jew. 
This class expected to find in THe DrarsBorn INDE- 
PENDENT a spokesman for all their coarse humor and 
abuse. 

The method that was. followed by this paper, 
however, was not abusive enough, nor bitter enough 
to satisfy Jew-baiters and Jew-haters, and gradu- 
ally a new response from another class began to be 
heard, which by this time has attained massive pro- 
portions. The better class of people, seeing that 
racial and religious prejudice had no part in the 
work, began to consider the Question with relation 
to our American life and the future of this nation 
as a Christian people. 

Upon this ascent of the discussion to its proper 
plane, the better periodicals began to give thought- 
ful attention to the matter. These publications have 
been referred to in previous articles. There is to be 
added to the list the Century Magazine for Septem- 
ber, which contains an article by Herbert Adams 
Gibbons which clearly intends to be fair and is cer- 
tainly able, in spite of a difference of opinion that 
might exist with regard to some of the author’s con- 
clusions. Mr. Gibbons states some matters more 
plainly than they have been stated outside the pages 
of Tur Drarsorn INDEPENDENT, and some matters 
he states just as plainly; and he will be justified by 
the unprejudiced reader. 

One of the most notable studies of the Jewish 


HOW THE JEWS USE POWER—BY AN EYEWITNESS 129 


Question has come out of the University of the 
South, at Sewanee, Tennessee. It is entitled “Zion- 
ism and the Jewish Problem,” the author being the 
Rev. Dr. John P. Peters, formerly canon residen- 
tiary of the Cathedral of St. John the Divine, Morn- 
ingside Heights, New York, also rector emeritus of 
St. Michael’s Church, New York, and professor of 
New Testament Languages and Literature in the 
University of the South. The article has been re- 
printed from the Sewanee Review and makes a 
brochure of 29 pages. 

Dr. Peters begins with an historical sketch of 
‘the development of the two lines of thought among 
the Jews, the nationalistic which made for exclu- 
Siveness, and the religious which made for inclu- 
Siveness, and he describes the domination of the lat- 
ter by the former with the coming of modern Zion- 
ism which he finds to be racial and not religious. 
He says “the dominant control of the Zionist party 
is at present in the hands of those who are not re- 
ligious but merely racial Jews.” He believes that 
the development of race-consciousness along these 
lines: “must be inevitably in the end to make the 
Jews bad citizens of the United States or of any 
other country and to keep alive and increase the 
hostility to the Jews... .” 

This monograph by Dr. Peters will repay study. 
By permission, Tur DeARBoRN INDEPENDENT reprints 
the article from page 20 to the end, this portion be- 
ing selected because it deals with Dr. Peters’ testi- 
mony as an eyewitness of certain conditions in Pal- 
estine: (The italics are ours, there being none in the 
university reprint. ) 

“The experiment of the Zionist homeland is now 
being tried. It is too early to determine fully how 
it will work, but it is at least of interest to consider 
its manifestations so far. My earliest contact with 
Zionism and Zionistic influences in Palestine dates 
from 1902. When I first visited Palestine, in 1890, 
the Jews in Jerusalem were almost exclusively of 
old oriental Sephardic families. Jerusalem was 
then still the old Jerusalem within the walls. There 


130 THE INTERNATIONAL JEW 


were no houses without. Jewish colonization, eco- 
nomic and philanthropic in character, had just then 
begun on the Sharon plain, but what little there 
was in the way of colonization was a feeble, unsuc- 
cessful exotic—an attempt to replace the persecuted 
Jews of Russia on the land, where, however, the 
Jew, unused to manual and especially farm labor, 
sat under an umbrella to protect himself from the 
sun and engaged native Syrians to do the work. 

“On my next visit, in 1902, more colonies had 
been planted, and a serious effort was being made 
to turn the Jewish colonists into farmers. The 
majority of the Jews who had come to Palestine, : 
however, were settled about Jerusalem, and the new 
Jerusalem without the walls was larger, in space at 
least, than the old Jerusalem within. The Alliance 
Israelite had developed there splendid schools to 
teach agriculture, and manual and industrial arts. 
I was urgently solicited by the management to visit 
and inspect these schools. Here I found Jew, Mos- 
lem and Christian working side by side without 
prejudice. This was, in my judgment, the best work 
of any sort being done in Palestine, for two reasons: 
first, these schools were teaching the dignity and 
the worth of manual labor, which the oriental of all 
sorts had theretofore despised, regarding it as un- 
worthy of any man of intelligence or capacity; sec- 
ondly, because they brought Moslem, Christian and 
Jew together on a plane of common work and com- 
mon worth, the most valuable agent for the break- 
ing down of those ancient prejudices, religious, ra- 
cial and social, which have been the curse and bane 
of the land. 

“T was asked to put this down in writing be- 
cause, I was told, great pressure was being exerted 
—I regret to say, especially fram America—to pre- 
vent the management from continuing this particu- 
lar work of teaching Jew, Christian and Moslem on 
the same plane, the demand being that the Jew 
should not be brought into such contact with the 
Moslem and the Christian, and that he alone should 
be trained, that he might not be infected, as it were, 


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by the others, and that they might not be prepared 
to compete with him for possession of the land. 
This spirit I met in a more thoroughly organized 
and offensive form on my latest visit in 1919 and 
1920. 

“T found immense progress in the development 
of agricultural colonies. There was still difficulty 
in persuading the Jew, except only the African or 
Arabian Jew, to do the actual work of the colony, 
but colonies were prospering, and fruit-culture, vine- 
culture and especially the manufacture of wine and 
liquors on a grand and most scientific scale, had 
progressed wonderfully. In general, the land occu- 
pied by those colonies was not in a proper sense 
ancient Jewish land. They were on the Sharon and 
Esdraelon plains and in the extreme upper end of 
the Jordan Valley; but those regions were being 
enriched, and the country at large benefited by the 
colonists. The great bulk of the Jews were still 
gathered in Jerusalem as heretofore, and there were 
‘ on one hand the intellectuals and on the other the 
parasitic or pauperized Jew, what would ordinarily 
be regarded as the very best and the very worst. 
Life in the colonies was often very sweet and very 
lovely, a wholesome, normal family life, and an ex- 
hibition in peace and prosperity of what religious 
Judaism at its best may be. ; 

“In Jerusalem one found the extremes of in- 
tensely narrow and bitter orthodoxy, and unbelief 
with extreme Bolshevik radicalism. Here, too, ag- 
gressive Zionism manifested itself in an attitude of 
bumptiousness and aggressiveness. The country 
was for the Jew. It belonged to him and he would 
shortly take possession. One was made to feel that 
one’s presence in the land was objected to. The He- 
brew press contained angry diatribes against the ex- 
istence of Christian schools and missions. The atti- 
tude taken by these Zionists at first alarmed, then 
_aroused and irritated enormously, the native popu- 
lation, both Christian and Moslem, making the Jew 
an object of dread and hatred as he had never been 
before. I had opportunities to talk on intimate and 


132 THE INTERNATIONAL JEW 


friendly terms with leaders in all camps, albeit I 
was unable, through language difficulties, to com- 
municate with the rank and file as freely as I 
should like to have done. I myself felt the annoy- 
ance and in some places the danger of the animosity 
aroused. Under government order I was not per- 
mitted to visit certain sections of the country on 
account of the raids or uprisings of the Arabs, part- 
ly due to animosity roused by their apprehension 
of the Jewish invasion, and partly due to banditry, 
which took advantage of that as an occasion. In 
other parts it was difficult to travel, because any 
stranger, unless he could prove the contrary, was 
suspected of being an agent of the Zionists, spying 
out the land for possession by the Jews. It was 
difficult to obtain lodgings or food, and there were 
sometimes unpleasantly hostile demonstrations on 
account of these suspicions. JEiverywhere it was be- 
heved that the Jew by unfair means was seeking to 
oust the true owners and to take possession of their 
land. 

“In Jerusalem it was asserted that the Zionist 
funds, or the Jewish funds which the Zionists could 
influence or control, were used to subsidize Jewish 
artisans or merchants to underbid Christians and 
Moslems and thus oust them by unfair competition, 
and that similar means were being used to acquire 
lands or titles to lands. It was even believed by 
‘many that the English authorities were unduly 
favoring and helping the Jews in these endeavors, 
as is shown by a letter from a Christian in Jaffa 
published in the Atlantic Monthly :— 

“*We are already feeling that we have a 
government within a government. British of- 
ficers cannot stand on the right side because 
they are afraid of being removed from their 
posts or ticked off.’ 

“Hrom time immemorial the Jews the world over 
have contributed for the help of pious Jews in Jeru- 
salem and the other sacred cities, Hebron, Tiberias 
and Safed, the so-called halukha or dole, in return 
for which the Jews in those cities were to win merit 


HOW THE JEWS USE POWER—BY AN EYEWITNESS 133 


for themselves and those who contributed to their 
support by study of the law, prayer and pious ob- 
servances. St. Paul carried over the same practice 
into the Christian Church, causing alms to be col- 
lected in the different congregations to be trans- 
ferred to Jerusalem for the benefit and support of 
the Christians living there. To this day annual col- 
lections are taken in the Roman Catholic churches 
throughout the world which go to the Iranciscans 
for the same use in Jerusalem. The Greeks and 
Armenians have like customs. In the past there had 
been no prejudice with regard to these doles, but 
now, it was claimed, the Zionist committees were 
using the moneys thus collected or contributed to 
organize and help their people in a systematized 
attempt to gain the upper hand in the land. 
“Perhaps the attitude of the extremists who pos- 
sessed the dominating power in the community can 
best be shown by the utterances of one of their own 
organs, written in Hebrew. (It should be stated 
that the English edition of this journal was, as a 
rule, quite different in its contents from the Hebrew 
edition. One article, entitled ‘Malignant Leprosy,’ 
is a denunciation of parents who allow their chil- 
dren to go to any school except those under the con- 
trol of Jews and conforming to the demands of the 
local Zionist Committee. Parents are notified that 
a list has been made by the Zionist Committee of 
all children who are attending foreign schools, even 
though they are not subjected to any religious teach- 
ing, and it is demanded that they shall be with- 
drawn from those schools and placed in schools 
where they shall be taught the Hebrew language, 
customs and traditions, and kept separate from con- 
tamination by the Gentile, with his different ways 
and customs. Those teaching in foreign schools, or 
schools not complying with the conditions laid down 
by this committee, are ordered to withdraw from 
their positions. The ‘malignant leprosy’ is the con- 
tamination by the outside world which results from 
education with the Gentiles. It is admitted in this 
article, in answer to protests, that the opportunities 


134 THE INTERNATIONAL JEW 


in some of the non-Jewish schools are better than in 
the Jewish schools—for example, in the teaching of 
foreign languages, so important for conducting busi- 
ness or securing employment; that there is greater 
diligence in instructing; and better hours and bet- 
ter care of pupils. Nevertheless, parents are in- 
formed that they must sacrifice for the sake of their 
race those chances for their children, doing their 
best meanwhile to raise their own schools to the 
higher level. Those who are failing to live up to 
these ideals are designated as ‘traitors’ and by other 
opprobrious names, and the article ends with this 
threat of persecution to any who do not obey the 
orders of the Zionist Committee thus conveyed: 

“Let him know at least that it is forbidden 
him to be called by the name of Jew and there 
is to him no portion or inheritance with his 
brethren, and if after a time they will not try 
to reform, let them know that we will fight 
against them by all lawful means at our dis- 
posal. Upon a monument of shame we will put 
their names for a reproach and blaming for- 
ever, and unto the last generation shall their 
deeds be written. If they are supported, their 
support will cease, and if they are merchants, 
with a finger men will shoot at them, and if 
they are Rabbis, they will be moved far from 
their office, and with the ban shall they be per- 
secuted, and all the people of the world shall 
know that there is no mercy in judgment.’ 

“This was followed about a month later by a 
second article, also in Hebrew, entitled ‘Fight and 
Win,’ which announced that the threatened persecu- 
tion would now be carried out: 

“The names of the traitorous parents and 
of the boys and girls who have not taken notice 
of the warnings ought to be published at once 
and without delay, in the papers and on public 
notices, placarded at the entrance of every 
street. The list of these names should be sent 
to the heads of every institution and to the rul- 
ers of the synagogues, to hospitals, to those who 


HOW THE JEWS USE POWER—BY AN EYEWITNESS 135 


arrange and solemnize marriages, and to the 
directors of the American Jewish Relief Fund, 
and so on. It should be the title of “Black 
List” and “Traitors to Their People.” An or- 
der should go forth to all, and if one of these 
men has a son, he shall not be circumcised; in 
case of death the body is not to be buried among 
Israelites; religious marriages will not be sanc- 
tioned; Jewish doctors will not visit their sick ; 
relief will not be given to them when they are 
in need, if they are on the list of the American 
relief fund—in short, we must hunt them down 
until they are annihilated. Men will cry to 
them: “Out of the way, unclean, unclean!” 
Because these people will be considered as ma- 
licious renegades, there can be no connecting 
link between them and us. Again, the society 
of young men and girls of Jerusalem must ac- 
cept it as a principle to expel from their soci- 
eties all those who visit these schools; to point 
the finger of scorn at them; and to make them 
see that they are put out of the camp. These 
traitor scholars, boys and girls, must under- 
stand themselves that they are sinners and 
transgressors, who are isolated, driven from all 
society, separated from the Jewish community, 
after they have once despised Israel and its 
holiness, and it will be interdicted to all sons of 
Israel to come near them . . . . War against 
the traitors among our people. War by all 
means legal. War without pity or mercy; that 
the traitors may know that they must not trifle 
with the sentiment of a people. Fight and win.’ 
“The Zionist Committee, of whom one was an 
American, followed this by a printed announcement 
that the time of grace had passed and that forth- 
with the names of those who were still refractory 
would be posted publicly on street-corners, and the 
boycott begin. Miss Landau, a devout Jewess, the 
head of the best and highest Jewish school for girls 
in the city, the Eva Rothschild School, one of those, 
however, whose pupils and teachers were threatened 


136 THE INTERNATIONAL JEW 


under these rulings because they would not follow 
the dictates of the Zionist Committee, appealed to 
the civil authorities. The committee was haled into 
court and the threatened boycott enjoined. 

“With such an attitude on the part of Zionist 
leaders in Jerusalem it might be expected that vio- 
lence would ensue. Easter is a time of great ex- 
citement and unrest in Jerusalem for Christians, 
Jews and Moslems alike, for with Easter coincide 
the Jewish Passover and the Moslem pilgrim feast 
of Nebi Musa, when Moslems gather from all over 
Palestine to hear sermons in the Haram Esh-Sherif, 
and then march to the so-called tomb of Moses near 
the Dead Sea. The religious excitement of that sea- 
son which vents itself in curses of each against the 
others, is always likely to produce physical out- 
bursts if the cursers come into contact with one 
another. The Turks wisely segregated at that timo 
each religion in its own quarter. This, in spite of 
warnings and requests from the Moslem religious 
Jeaders, the English failed to do, either through 
ultra-confidence in the pax anglicana, or because of 
objections from Jewish representatives against such 
segregation as applied to them. For days before- 
hand hot-heads among the Jews and Moslems were 
inciting to riot, and in their quarter Jewish trained 
bands were preparing for the conflict, a preparation 
of which Moslems from long wont probably had no 
need. On Easter morning, 1920, the fanatical Mos- 
lems of Hebron arrived at the Jaffa gate with their 
sacred banner, singing their songs of religious intol- 
erance. There numerous Jews were waiting to greet 
them. The English Tommies with their officers were 
all in church. Whose insults were the worst and 
who struck the first blow is not clear. Battle was 
speedily joined. The Jews were better armed, with 
guns against the Moslem knives; but the Moslems 
were the better fighters. The city within the walls 
was speedily in their hands. The Jews living there 
were the old-time Sephardic families, dwelling close- 
packed in miserable slums, with no sympathy with 
Zionism, peaceful and quite unprepared. Moslem 


HOW THE JEWS USE POWER—BY AN EYEWITNESS 137 


fury vented itself on these poor wretches. Without 
the walls the Jews were in the vast majority. All 
told, by official count there were at that time 28,000 
Jews, 16,000 Christians and 14,500 Moslems in Jeru- 
salem. What the Moslem did within the walls the 
Jew endeavored to do without the walls. ‘Before 
my eyes an Arab camp just below the great Jewish 
- quarters was set upon, burned and plundered, the 
poor inhabitants fleeing for their lives while guns 
popped from the Jewish quarter. Two men were 
killed there. When the troops reached the scene 
the great bulk of rioters whom they rounded up 
were Jews. The subsequent court proceedings also 
seemed to place the chief responsibility for the out- 
break on them. The major sentences were equally 
divided between Jews and Moslems, but of the crim- 
inals who received lighter sentences the majority 
were Jews, For a week we lived in a state of siege, 
not allowed to pass in or out of the city gates, or 
to show ourselves on roof or balcony after sundown, 
and for months there were guards at every turn, 
assemblies were prohibited and there was continual 
danger of a new outbreak. 

“The appointment of Sir Herbert Samuel, a Jew, 
as governor of the new protectorate under the Zion- 
ist Mandate, greatly increased the excitement. In 
Moslem towns like Nablus it was openly said in my 
presence that no Jew might enter the place and live. 
The Christians, who had taken no part in the riots, 
were nevertheless to a man in sympathy with the 
Moslems, and one saw the curious spectacle of Cross 
and Crescent making common cause. It was prophe- 
sied that should Sir Herbert come as governor, he 
would never enter Jerusalem alive. In point of fact, 
he landed at Jaffa and came up to Jerusalem under 
strong guard, with machine-guns before and behind, 
and the following week made a visit to Nablus and 
Haifa in the same manner. That was the situation 
when I left Palestine. Sir Herbert had at that time 
just issued his declaration and his interpretation of 
.the mandate. Hnglish officers and officials almost 
to a man were against the Zionist Mandate, and 


138 THE INTERNATIONAL JEW 


their utterances in many cases were extraordinarily 
frank. Some of the most prominent and best-trained 
sought transfers to other posts because of their feel- 
ings on the matter, and some resigned. 

“Tt has since that time been extremely difficult 
to obtain reliable information of prevailing condi- 
tions. It would seem, however, from all the infor- 
mation I have been able to gather, that Sir Herbert, 
who is, I believe, not himself a Zionist, has acted 
with singular tact and discretion. He has shown 
great fairness and indicated his intention to govern 
with impartiality, granting no special favors to any, 
nor allowing outside committees or local organiza- 
tions to dictate or assume to dictate unfair policies. 
When I left Palestine, Jews were leaving in consid- 
erable numbers, especially those claiming American 
citizenship, so that the outgo was larger than the 
income. Since then, if I may judge by reports, Jews 
have been coming in, chiefly from eastern European 
countries, some parasitic and objectionable, others 
of a higher type. Some of the latter, graduates of 
universities, both men and women, may be seen en- 
gaged in hard manual labor, I am told, building 
roads and the like, not despising to do such work 
in order to secure their Palestinian home and fulfill 
their aspirations. 

“It is too soon to judge the future of the Zionist 
experiment in Palestine. If the English authorities 
will give fair play to all, and if the Jews will pursue 
the old policy of the Alliance Israelite and its 
schools of seeking to benefit all dwellers of the land 
alike, to break down, not to build up, religious, racial 
and social prejudices, then the Jew may perhaps 
overcome the present prejudice against him, and his 
invasion of Palestine may prove to be a blessing 
both to himself and to the land. The methods of 
those in control of the Zionist movement in Pales- 
tine while I was there were, however, aimed in the 
opposite direction and tended to make the Jew an 
object of hatred and violence wherever the oppor- 
tunity for violence offered. This has been illustrated 
again by the recent bloody riot in Jaffa which com- 


HOW THE JEWS USE POWER—BY AN EYEWITNESS § 139 


pelled the expedition of a British warship to that 
port; and the order issued holding up all immigra- 
tion shows that not Jaffa only but the whole coun. 
try is unsafe. The Jews in Palestine are now pro- 
tected only by force of British arms. Were the 
British troops withdrawn, the Jews would be ex- 
terminated by the angry natives, of whom the Mos- 
lems alone outnumber them in the ratio of more than 
ten to one; and with such action the neighboring 
countries would sympathize, yielding ready assist- 
ance if any were required. Mesopotamia and Egypt 
are seething with disaffection against British rule, 
and racial-religious ferment, and Palestine is to 
them and to the Arabs of Arabia a holy land in- 
cluded in the heritage of Islam. Moslem India also 
feels this keenly, and the British have been obliged 
to withdraw Moslem Indian troops from Palestine, 
because they will not fight fellow-Moslems. 

“In this country the Jewish problem which we 
have hitherto had to face is not a result of religious 
antipathy. MReligiously, politically and economical. 
ly, the Jew has the same opportunity as everyone 
else. The Jewish problem here has been merely a 
matter of social prejudice, resulting from the ex- 
tremely difficult task of amalgamating with great 
rapidity an enormous population, alien in race, cul- 
ture, custom and habit. In 1880 there were, accord- 
ing to Jewish statistics, 250,000 Jews in this coun- 
try. The Jews now claim 38,500,000, for the most 
part an undistributed mass huddled together in a 
few of the great cities—one-third of them in New 
York. Coming in such great numbers in so short a 
time and herding together thus, intentionally or un- 
intentionally they help one another to resist the 
process of Americanization. This enormously in- 
creases the incidence of social prejudice. Those who 
have no conscious prejudice either of religion or of 
race are in danger of imbibing or developing such 
prejudice as a method of protection of their institu- 
tions, their traditions and their habits. The Zionist 
movement, with its intentional development of race 
consciousness and race peculiarity on the part of the 


140 THE INTERNATIONAL JEW 


Jew, is an additional obstacle against the efforts of 
those Jews and those Christians who are seeking to 
break down prejudice and to bring Jew and Chris- 
tian together within a common recognition of the 
Golden Rule: that each should treat the other as he, 
in like instance, would wish to be treated by him. 
One of the greatest of English Jews, honored and 
respected by Jew and Christian alike for his learn- 
ing, his philanthropy and his godly piety, says of 
this racial-political Zionism that it has broken his 
heart, and set the clock backward for his people a 
hundred years. The Christian lover of his country 
and his fellow-men may well express a similar feel- 
ing on his side.” 


Issue of September 17, 1921. 


LIT. 


How Jews Ruled and Ruined 
Tammany Hall 


Ny THIN the memory even of young men, Tam- 

many Hall has been the synonym of all polit- 
ical trickery, in the vocabulary of popular criticism. 
Tammany Hall was held up as the worst example 
of boss rule and political corruption that it was pos- 
sible to find in either of the parties. Its very 
name became a stigma. 

But even the most unobservant newspaper reader 
must have observed the gradual fading out of Tam- 
many Hall from public comment, the cessation of the 
bitter criticism, the entire absence of headlines 
bristling with ugly charges, and the calling of the 
hosts of good citizenship to do battle against the 
grim bossism that maintained its headquarters at 
the Wigwam. 

Why this change? Is it due to the dying out of 
Tammany Halli as a political force? No, Tammany 
is still there, as any New York politician will tell 
you. Is it due, then, to a reform of that organiza- 
tion? No, the Tammany tiger has not changed its 
stripes. Then, perhaps, this change is due to pub- 
lic sentiment? Not at all. The explanation is to 
be found along other lines. 

There was a time when fearless publications told 
the truth about Tammany, but Harper’s Weekly 
and others which waged fierce war against the Tiger, 
have either gone out of existence or have fallen 
under control of the Jews. The silence which has 
shrouded certain matters must not be noted and 
set aside without reference to the changed control 
of the press. There was a time when public bodies 
like the Citizens’ Union organized to oppose Tam- 
many and to keep a volunteer vigil on its activities; 
these groups have succumbed to Jewish contribu- 
tions and officership and no longer stand guard. 


142 THE INTERNATIONAL JEW 


The outcry against Tammany seemed to be 
hushed the moment that Tammany patronage fell 
into the hands of New York Jews, where it now re- 
poses, the Kehillah being the real political center, 
and Tammany but a distributing station—a sort 
of organizational “Gentile front” for the more power- 
ful Kehillah. A few Tammany leaders are per- 
mitted to strut out in front, but everyone knows 
that from the Wigwam chiefs the power has de- 
parted, it is now to be found in Jewish conferences. 
Murphy is still the titular head of Tammany, but 
like a Samson shorn, he is not feared and obeyed 
as of yore. In fact, the Judaization of Tammany 
Hall is now complete. Once in a while the Irish— 
always 2 match for the Jews—rear their heads and 
show battle, but for the most part Jewish money 
rules and the Tiger lies down. 

Tammany Hall was one of the strongest polit- 
ical organizations ever seen in the United States, 
potent not only in municipal and state politics, 
but often exercising a decisive influence on national 
affairs. It was, without exaggeration, powerful. 

If there is one quality that attracts Jews, it 
is power. Wherever the seat of power may be, 
thither they swarm obsequiously. As Tammany was 
power and the gate of power, it was natural that the 
Jews of the biggest Jewish city in the world should 
court it. Doubtless, they were also affected by the 
incorgruity of the fact that in the biggest Jewish 
city, the most solid political power was non-Jewish. 
That was a condition which called for correction. 

When the German Jewish banker, Schoenberg, 
came to this country under the name of August 
Belmont to represent the interests of the Roths- 
childs, his keen eye at once took in the situation 
and at once he began to court the favor of Tam- 
many. He became a member and a supporter. It 
was good business for this Jewish banker, because 
the funds of the Rothschilds were heavily invested 
in New York tractions. The properties of city trac- 
tions were and to a great extent still are, as in 
all American cities, at the mercy of the local Tam- 





HOW JEWS RULED AND RUINED TAMMANY HALL 143 


many power, by whatever name it may be known. 
Belmont was insinuating himself under the wing of 
power to protect the investments for which he was 
responsible. 

August Belmont eventually attained the coveted 
eminence of Grand Sachem of the Tammany Society. 
The Belmont family for a time represented the sole 
Jewish banking support of Tammany Hall, but that 
honor is now divided among many. 

In Richard Croker’s day, when corruption went 
hand in hand with power, and power apparently 
was none the weaker for it, we find that this noto- 
rious leader’s intimate friend, business partner and 
political associate was a Jew—-Andrew Freedman. 
Freedman and Croker lived together at the Demo- 
cratic Club in Fifth Avenue, Tammany politicians 
even then having become rich enough to despise 
Fourteenth Avenue. Freedman held the purse 
strings of the organization, as head of the Committee 
on Finance, and he was Croker’s representative and 
mouthpiece when the chief went into exile on an 
over-sea estate. , 

The most recent Jewish power in Tammany Hall, 
and one of the most liberal contributors to Tammany 
campaign funds, is the lawyer, Samuel Untermeyer, 
whose specialty of recent years seems to be to serve 
as the battering ram of the Jewish power against 
interests which it wants destroyed, and whose 
efforts are usually camouflaged under exaggerated 
journalistic advertisements as being wholly in the 
public interest. Mr. Untermeyer is not in particu- 
larly good humor with Tammany these days, be- 
cause of the recent defeat of his son, Irving Unter- 
meyer, for a judgeship. There was somewhere a 
slip. The Jews deserted the Wilson ship anyway, 
apparently seeing what was coming in the way of 
retribution for the colossal and amazing misman- 
agement of war business which was principally in 
their hands; and in the ensuing mix-up, a scion of 
the house of Untermeyer tasted defeat. 

Tammany numbers other Jews among its sup- 
porters. Nathan Straus, one of the owners of R. 


144 THE INTERNATIONAL JEW 


H. Macy & Company, has been for years an active 
member of the organization and one of the rulers 
of its inner councils. 

A Jewish ghetto politician, Henry M. Goldfogle, 
has represented the Jewish interests in Congress 
for a number of years, and expected to continue, but 
he slipped in the election and has recently been 
“taken care of” by a city appointment. 

There is also Judge Rosalsky who has been impli- 
cated in a number of interesting matters which illus-. 
trate the completeness of the Jewish network of 
control in New York City. 

One might mention also M. L. Erlanger and War- 
ley Platzek, justices of the supreme court of the 
state of New York, but if one began a list of the 
Jewish judiciary of that city, where would one end? 

Another Tammanyite is Randolph Guggenheimer, 
founder of the corporation law firm of Guggen- 
heimer, Untermeyer and Marshall—Untermeyer be- 
ing the aforesaid grand inquisitor of Gentile activ- 
ities generally and Marshall being head of the Amer- 
ican Jewish Committee and the Kehillah. 

It was doubtless necessary for a Jewry that con- 
templated control of the judiciary as well as special 
protection for certain powerful Jewish enterprises 
that are near enough the borderline of the law to 
merit question—it was necessary to obtain control 
of the supreme political engine through which favors 
were disbursed in local politics. And control of 
such organizations can always be had by money. 

Not that the Jews threw themselves entirely into 
Tammany. The Jew’s natural political home seems 
to be in the Republican party, for thither he returns 
after venture elsewhere. But his predilection for 
the Republican party does not move the Jew to make 
the mistake of being exclusively the partisan of one 
group. It is better, as he knows, to control both 
eroups. ‘thy 

As a matter of political fact, strong as is the 
Jewish element in Tammany, it is still stronger in 
the ranks of the Republican party, while New York 
Socialism is completely headed and manned by Jews. 


HOW JEWS RULED AND RUINED TAMMANY HALL 145 


This renders it extremely easy for the Jews to swing 
support in whichever direction they choose, and for 
Kehillah to fulfill any threat it may make. It also 
insures that any Jewish candidate on any ticket 
will be elected. The fluke in the case of young 
Untermeyer is perhaps not to be entirely explained 
politically; other causes were doubtless working in 
that matter. 

It is a long time since Ferdinand Levy bore the 
distinction of being the first Jew in New York to 
hold a political job. He was only a coroner, and 
the man who appointed him was only a fire com- - 
missioner, but that fire commissioner was Richard 
Croker. And Levy was solidly backed by the In- 
dependent Order of B’nai B’rith, whose success in 
this matter laid the foundation for more ambitious 
demands later. 

But at the beginning, the Kehillah Jews adopted 
the ancient policy, not of putting forward their own 
people, but non-Jews who could be useful to Judah. 
The difference between pro-Jewish politicians who 
are not themselves Jews, and politicians of the 
Jewish race, is that the former in office can some- 
times go further than the Jew in office can, with- 
out detection. This has been true at least up to 
this time, but it will probably not be true very long, 
now that the people’s eyes are being opened. The 
Jewish officeholder is only standing up for his race, 
but the “Gentile front” has betrayed the people for 
the pottage of Jewish favor. 

Thus, in the early days of Tammany, indeed until 
comparatively recent years, we see the “Gentile 
front” in Tammany offices and basking in the glory 
of Tammany publicity, but in the background there 
is always his “Jewish control.” This also is a 
formula for citizens who wish to know the meaning 
of things otherwise unexplainable—“look for the 
‘Jewish control.’ ” 

To this end, therefore, the Jews have been strong 
in all parties, so that whichever way the election 
went, the Jews would win. In New York it is 
always the Jewish party that wins. The campaign 


146 THE INTERNATIONAL JEW 


is staged as an entertainment, a diversion for the 
people; they are permitted to think and act as if 
they were really making their own government, but 
it is always the Jews that win. 

And if after having elected their man or a group, 
obedience is not rendered to the Jewish control, 
then you speedily hear of “scandals” and “investi- 
gations” and “impeachments,” for the removal of 
the disobedient official. Usually a man with a 
“past” proves the most obedient instrument, but 
even a good man can often be tangled up in cam- 
paign practices that compromise him. 

It has been commonly known that Jewish ma- 
nipulation of campaign matters has been so skill- 
fully handled, that no matter which candidate was 
elected, there was ready made a sufficient amount 
of evidence to discredit him in case his Jewish 
masters needed to discredit him. To arrange this 
is part of the thoroughness of Jewish control. And, 
of course, the American people have been sufficiently 
trained to roar against the public official immediate- 
ly the first Jewish political hound emits its warning 
bay. 

Amazing as is the technique of the Jewish polit- 
ical process, the readiness with which the American 
people can be counted on to do their part in for- 
warding the game is still more amazing. 

What Mr. Hylan, the present mayor of New York 
has done to merit chastisement, is scarcely clear to 
a non-partisan investigator. But the fact that the 
Jews have set out to “get” him for something, is 
evident on every side. 

In the Untermeyer so-called “housing investiga- 
tion,” the people hauled up were non-Jews, and the 
result of the whole business has been a stronger 
Jewish hold than ever on the housing affairs of New 
York. Jews are exempt from such inquisitions. The 
choice prey are non-Jewish business houses whose 
secrets may be forced and whose good name may be 
stained under cover of a legal procedure. There is 
such a thing as blackmail so entirely respectable as 
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HOW JEWS RULED AND RUINED TAMMANY HALL 147 


Governor Sulzer, of New York, was the choice of 
the Jews. They subscribed money for his cam- 
paign, forced it on him, and kept careful account 
of it. Finally, under pressure of a compelling sense 
of justice, Sulzer pardoned a non-Jewish valet of an 
important Jewish New York family, a young man 
whom a coterie of Jews very prominent in the polit- 
ical, financial and social worlds had contrived to 
“put away” for a period of 30 years. Sulzer had no 
option but to pardon young Brandt. But he paid 
the penalty. He was impeached. The Jews who 
supported him testified against him and their checks 
were used to assist his dismissal. 

The story of young ‘Brandt hangs heavily over the 
heads of some of the proudest Jewish names in New 
York. 

Playing ‘on both sides of the political fence, and 
always retaining a string on the men they elect to 
office, are two Jewish characteristics which should 
not fail to be reckoned with. Tur Derarporn IN- 
DEPENDENT, in its recent articles showing the hand 
of Paul Warburg in the Federal Reserve System, 
was able to prove by Mr. Warburg’s own words that 
his firm, Kuhn, Loeb & Company, during the three- 
cornered fight between Roosevelt, Taft and Wilson, 
supported all three. The Jewish owners of R. H. 
Macy & Company, New York, illustrate the same 
principle; while Nathan Straus looked after affairs 
at Tammany Hall, his brother and partner, [sador 
Straus, was one of the most active opponents of 
Tammany. Were the interests of the two men there- 
fore different? Not at all. 

Take the firm of Guggenheimer, Untermeyer and 
Marshall. This is a notable firm for the part it 
plays in the people’s business. Every community in 
America has been affected by Louis Marshall’s de- 
cisions as head of the American Jewish Committee. 
Untermeyer is the arch-inquisitor for Jewry. Ran- 
dolph Guggenheimer, the founder of the firm, 
achieved the foremost influence of any except the 
Chief in the old Wigwam, and was a power to be 
reckoned with in all matters. But Louis Marshall 


148 THE INTERNATIONAL JEW 


is a “staunch” Republican and a member of the Re- 
publican Club. Here again is the favorite method 
of including all parties under the capacious wing of 
the Jewish program. 

Hence the popularity of “Fusion” in New York 
City elections. It has become the fad, but its most 
notable purpose is to insure the election of a Jew © 
whatever his politics may be. In some Assembly 
Districts it is impossible to find anyone but a Jew 
to vote for. When Otto A. Rosalsky, a jurist who 
was implicated in the Brandt scandal, was re-elected 
Judge of General Sessions in 1920, he was the 
“Fusion” candidate on both the Democratic and Re- 
publican tickets. It was perhaps fortunate for his 
candidacy that he was. The point just now is that 
whenever a candidate may be vulnerable, it is very 
desirable to forestall a fight upon him by eliminating 
all opposition before the election. “Fusion” is an- 
other matter that should be carefully scrutinized in 
behalf of American rule of American cities. 

By the way things are going in New York, these 
inter-party and “fusion” expedients may soon be 
unnecessary, because in any event it will be most 
difficult to avoid electing a Jew. Of the candidates 
of all parties for the offices of justice of the supreme 
court of New York, numbering 26, 14 were Jews. 
Of the Democratic presidential electors, 13 were 
Jews. Of the Republican presidential electors, 14 
were Jews. Of the Socialist presidential electors, 
22 were Jews. 

The strength of Tammany had exactly the same 
source as the strength of the Kehillah, namely, in 
the foreign population; the difference being that the 
Kehillah had a more compact foreign mass to draw 
upon. But both the Jewish leaders and the Tam- 
many leaders have always been alertly aware of the 
fact that their power depended upon an uninter- 
rupted flow of immigration, to supply the losses 
sustained by the Americanization of the people. It 
is always the un-Americanized foreigner that makes 
the best material for the Kehillah’s and Tammany’s 
purposes. The Kehillah is based upon the principle 


HOW JEWS RULED AND RUINED TAMMANY HALL 149 


of recognizing racial minorities, and Tammany has 
made a specialty of giving representation of racial 
minorities in its councils. This was a liberal policy, 
and was thoroughly American in its original intent 
(as Tammany was a thoroughly American assem- 
blage at its inception) but it was soon seized upon 
by the Jews and used to their own ends, and to 
the eventual ruin of all except Jewish representa- 
tion. Thus all through the history of immigration 
activity, Tammany has been on the side of the wide 
open gate without any restrictions. The lower the 
type of immigrant, the more easily amenable it is 
to the ward boss’s orders. 

Tammany of recent years has been the able 
seconder of the Kehillah in all efforts to frustrate 
control of immigration. 

The third great influx of immigration into the 
United States occurred in 1884 and was really the 
cause of the beginning of the degeneration of Tam- 
many Hall. The great wave was composed of Rus- 
sian, Austria nand Hungarian Jews, whose arrival 
was followed by a memorable period of crime, the 
marks of which remain to this day. Indeed, the 
downfall of Richard Croker was a direct result. 

At that time the police department and the police 
courts before which all criminal cases in the city 
were first brought, were in the hands of Tammany 
Halil. The result was a partnership between local 
government and crime which has not been duplicated 
outside of Semitic countries. 

Immigrant Jews of the shadier type organized an 
association called The Max Hochstim Association, 
which was known during the Lexow Investigation as 
“The Essex Market Court Gang.” One of its chief 
rulers was Martin Engel, Tammany leader of the 
Eighth Assembly District. The “king” of this Jew- 
ish district was a man named Solomon who had 
changed his name to the less revealing one of 
“Smith,” and who became known as “Silver Dollar 
Smith” because of the fact that he ruled his little 
empire from the Silver Dollar Saloon, which gained 
its name from the silver dollars that were cemented 


150 THE INTERNATIONAL JEW 


into the floor of his place of business. This saloon 
was just opposite the Essex Market Court, which 
was thronged daily by hordes of Yiddish criminals, 
the bondsmen, false witnesses and lawyers. 

Let not the ‘fastidious reader deem it unnecessary 
to linger longer round the old police court at Essex 
Market, for out therefrom came a word which has 
fixed itself in common English speech—the term 
“shyster,” by which a certain type of lawyer is de- 
scribed. A Clinton street lawyer named Scheuster, 
whose practices were quite characteristic, made him- 
self very obnoxious to Justice Osborne. Whenever 
another Yiddish lawyer attempted a shady trick, 
the judge would openly denounce it as “Scheuster 
practice,” and so it came that the first men in the 
profession to bear the name “shyster”’ were the 
Yiddish lawyers of Essex Market Court. 

To make a nasty story brief, the Max Hochstim 
Association became the first organized White Slaver 
group in America, and the revelations made by the 
Lexow Committee are shuddering glimpses into that 
lowest form of depravity—a coolly conducted, com- 
mercialized, consolidated traffic in women. The 
traffic was made to yield dividends to politicians, to 
.Tammany Jews in particular. The Ghetto became 
the Red Light District of New York. The first man 
to undertake the export trade in women with foreign 
countries, especially South America, was a man who 
later became a Tammany notable. 

The surprising fact is that, although these mat- 
ters are written in official documents, and although 
the same matters have been written into the record 
of every similar investigation which has been made, 
Jewish leaders persist in denying that the leaders 
in this particular form of depravity are Jews. When 
the United States Government made a nation-wide 
investigation, it found and recorded the same facts. 
The New York Kehillah came into existence as a 
defense organization at a time when the exposure 
of the Jewish White Slave traffic threatened to 
overwhelm the New York ghetto. 

The Max Hochstim Association was not the only 


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HOW JEWS RULED AND RUINED TAMMANY HALL 151 


organization of its kind. The other was the New 
York Independent Benevolent Association, which 
was organized in 1896 by a party of Jewish white 
slave dealers as they were returning from the fu- 
neral of Sam Engel, brother of Martin Engel, Tam- 
many leader of the red light district. 

The gangs that formed the backbone of Tammany 
power in the slum districts were made up of 
“cadets.” Their principal field of operation was 
the cheap dance halls. Paul Kelly’s gang originated 
in the halls about lower Broadway. Monk East- 
man’s gang grew strong in the Russian Jewish Dis- 
trict below Delancey street. And Kid Twist’s gang 
developed close to a dance hall for Galician Jews 
on the far East Side. All of these three were Jewish 
gang leaders. They were slavers as their forbears 
were in the days of Rome’s decline; they were boot- 
leggers before the days of prohibition; and they 
constituted a strong support of the international 
narcotic ring which to this day has defied the law 
by corrupting the officers of the law. 

It was to associations like these that the lights of 
Tammany lent their names. Tim Sullivan was a 
vice president of the Max Hochstim Association. 
The name of the Honorable Henry M. Goldfogle 
also appeared on the picnic announcements. 

The exposure which resulted when the white peo- 
ple of New York finally succeeded in getting the 
forces of the law to function impartially for a little 
while, caused many of the implicated Jews to change 
their names. These names are now representative 
of some of the best Jewish families, whose concealed 
bar sinister is the fact that the foundation of the 
family fortune was laid in the red light district. 
Society, sliced down to its seeds, is a queer growth. 

It is due in justice to say that men like Tim Sul- 
livan were not the originators of the Jewish abuses 
referred to, nor willing participants in the gains 
therefrom. Tammany would do favors for its 
friends, at the police court or elsewhere; Tammany 
had its occasional political upheavals; Tammany be- 
lieved that they who profited by political spoils 


152 THE INTERNATIONAL JEW 


should divide with the Wigwam’s treasury; but with ~ 
such traffic as seduction and barter in women, Tam- 
many had never been compromised until the Yiddish 
invasion of New York and the Judaization of the 
Wigwam. This much must be said for the Irish 
and American leaders. 

The situation is the same in Boston. An Irish 
city, its chief political control is in the hands of 
Jews. The old-time Irish leaders are still permitted 
to be out in front, but the inner power has departed 
from them. One Boston ward, where once none 
but Irish lived, now contains only Jews, but the 
old-time Irish boss retains his seat. This is by favor 
of the Jews and nothing else. 

The same state of facts accounts in large degree 
for the connection between a man like Tim Sullivan 
and the Jews. “Tim,” as everyone knew him, was 
leader of a district inhabited by Irish and Germans. 
Then the Jews came in. And then began the Jews’ 
practice of profiting by the people’s dislike of them. 

Foreign Jews well know that they are disliked. 
It is one of their assets which never fails to produce 
dividends. They choose the part of the city where 
they desire to live, and a few move in. Their im- 
mediate neighbors move out. More Jews move in— 
more of the others move out. The property nearest 
the Jews always goes down in value. People will 
sell at a loss rather than live engulfed in a ghetto. 

It was so in Tim Sullivan’s district. As the Jews 
swarmed in, the Irish and Germans fled north. 
Sullivan stood his ground. It was his old territory. 
he would not leave it, nor remove his family. He 
cultivated the new arrivals and made a partnership 
with the ex-kosher chicken butcher, Martin Engel. 

The Jews lived under Sullivan’s rule for a time, 
awaiting the moment when they should know what 
to do for themselves. The Yiddish flood increased 
until the district was crowded, and then the Jews 
demanded representation for themselves. ‘With a 
premonition that a new force had arisen, Tim Sulli- 
van played safe and helped the Jews to get recogni- 
tion—Martin Engel was made leader of the old 


HOW JEWS RULED AND RUINED TAMMANY HALL 153 


Eighth. But Sullivan had previously gone to Tam- 
many—or to what remained of the old non-Jewish 
Tammany—and exacted an understanding that his 
rule should be left unchanged below Fourteenth 
street. 

From that time forward, in spite of the under- 
standing, Sullivan’s power began to wane, princi- 
pally because he continued to get in deeper and 
deeper with the Jews. He went into Jewish lines 
of business. He formed a theatrical partnership 
with George Kraus, among his enterprises being the 
Imperial Music Hall, the Dewey Theater, and the 
traveling Eagle Burlesque Company. Still the old 
district continued to become crowded and _ over- 
crowded and saturated with Yiddish newcomers, for 
whom neither the name Sullivan nor the traditions 
of the district had any meaning. 

In his closing years, scarcely more than a hanger- 
on around the former scene of his power, Tim Sulli- 
van bitterly lamented the ease with which he was 
led into associations that undermined his power. 

Croker was destroyed in public confidence by the 
terrific shock of the exposure attending the Jewish 
“cadet” activities. Sullivan, equally picturesque, 
was the slowly shoved-out victim of Jewish infiltra- 
tion. There were other occurrences and other down. 
falls, all of which are a part of the real story of 
Tammany, 


Issue of September 24, 1921. 


“T need hardly explain that I do not think 
Jews ought to insist overmuch on thew rights 
or nationality in a negative sense. They ought 
to be as much Jews as they can, but ought to 
be as little as possible of what is merely -anti- 
Christian. For the Jews to try to get a song 
out of the public schools because it praises Jesus 
is natural but perhaps hardly wise. I admit 
that question, however, is an extremely complex 
and baffling one. Again, the Jews have natu- 
-vally taken a great interest in this war, but m 
that case also they ought to choose as far as 
possible the more tolerant view. Too much 
hostility to Russia was shown, it seems to me, 
when some of their spokesmen were fighting 
over the wording of the Immigration Act. They 
seemed to be fighting not for a real gain, but 
simply to rub their political power in America 
dnto the Russian mind.” 

—Norman Hapgood. 


LIV. 


Jew Wires Direct Tammany’s Gentile 
Puppets 


‘THE proposal that non-Jews emigrate from New 

York City, 500,000 in the first exodus, and 500,- 
000 in the second, to hasten the event which is held 
to be certain of occurrence, namely, that New York 
shall become an all-Jewish city, may be a joke; but 
it is no joke that the Jews themselves discuss and 
have proposed that the City of New York be sepa- 
rated from the state of New York, and made both 
a state and city in itself. This would entail three 
governments—state, county and municipal—whose 
offices the Jews could parcel out as they pleased. 
Besides, it would rid them of Albany. It is a most 
amazing fact that the state capital, bad as it is, 
has always been able to defeat the New York Jew 
in his most ardently pursued quests, as notably, 
his insistent appeal to abrogate the Sunday law. 

Of course, if the non-Jews emigrated from New 
York, the Jews would soon follow. They are not 
self-sufficient. If New York could be isolated, Jew- 
ish initiative would not suffice to provide enough 
potatoes for the inhabitants. 

It is too trite to say that New York is already 
in the hands of the Jews. But it would be most 
startling to give a schedule illustrating how com- 
pletely this is so. The New Yorker himself can 
scarcely comprehend the extent of his vassalage to 
the Jew. The average intelligent New Yorker does 
not know what the Kehillah is, nor yet how it works. 
Like the child born within sound of Niagara Falls, 
the New Yorker takes Jewish supremacy as a mat- 
ter of course, as the way things should be, and as 
the way they probably are elsewhere. The New 
Yorker is thus like a native of the Balkans. 

The Hylan administration, ostensibly non-Jew- 
ish, is really Jewish, as any New York administra- 


156 THE INTERNATIONAL JEW 


tion must necessarily be, except there should arise 
a man whose ambition would be to prove that New 
York could be better governed if the Jews should 
be excluded from the government. Well-informed 
New Yorkers say that the power of Hylan is Hirsch- 
field. 

This is a rather peculiar situation to those who 
do not understand how the Jewish leaders work. 
Directly you say the Hylan administration is Jew- 
ish, it is objected: “But it is the arch-Jewish inquis- 
itor, Untermeyer, who is trying to break down the 
Hylan administration!” Exactly. That is the game. 
It’s inside and outside that does it. There is power 
gained in making them and there is power gained 
in breaking them, and often it is profitable to try 
both ways with the same man. That is the way 
Russia went: there were Jews plentifully sprinkled 
throughout the government of Russia (in spite of 
the “persecution”) and there were Jews outside. 
Between the two, they got Russia. It is the same in 
a Texas city today. Four non-Jewish candidates 
for postmaster were made the center of a political 
deadlock—up through the deadlock pops a Jew as 
a compromise candidate for all sections. A suffi- 
cient number of Jews were available in that city 
to keep all the non-Jewish candidates in a deadlock 
until their own man was trotted out. The “Gentile 
mind,” of course, does not easily realize these turn- 
ings and twistings of group conspiracy. And that 
is why the Jews feel safe, as a rule: they rely on 
what they call “Gentile stupidity.” The Gentile 
says, “incredible!” And the traditional Jewish 
game is incredible, until by mountainous proofs and 
centuries of illustration the actuality of it is forced 
home to the mind. 

But to return to the New York City government: 
The police department has its Jewish streak in the 
higher offices—a Jewish police commissioner who 
has fortunately escaped thus far the full story of 
his career. The department of health, where it 
actually touches the people, is Jewish, although 
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JEW WIRES DIRECT TAMMANY’S GENTILE PUPPETS 157 


meets the eye in the roster of the higher officials. 
The public health is becoming more and more a 
Jewish monopoly in all our cities. The department 
of accounts, the board of child welfare, the board of 
inebriety, the municipal service commission, the 
board of taxes and assessments, are all under the 
leadership and domination of Jews. 

The judiciary becomes increasingly Jewish, liti- 
gation is almost overwhelmingly Jewish, and the 
consequences to the reputation of the courts of jus- 
tice and the profession of the law are well under- 
stood. Real estate exploitation and speculation is 
strictly Jewish, the profiteers treating even their 
own co-nationalists with the utmost cruelty. 

In short, New York’s most influential press 
(within New York) is the Yiddish press; New 
York’s real government is the Yiddish Kehillah; 
New York’s real administration of the law is the 
Yiddish administration; New York’s real politics 
is Jewish. A little more, and New York’s official 
language would be the Yiddish dialect. 

In all this Tammany Hall is little more than a 
name; it is one of the rallying centers which the 
Jews have left the non-Jew who still interests him- 
self in New York politics. There must be rallying 
places for the non-Jews, and one or two do not hurt. 
The Jew has the double advantage in such a matter, 
for while he claims equality with all, he denies 
equality with any. That is, any Jew proclaims his 
right to join any fraternity, or any club, or any 
Society, or any party whose members are chiefly 
non-Jewish, but where is the Jewish fraternity, or 
club, or society that admits non-Jewish members? 
The newspapers carried the report, after a certain 
occurrence, that hundreds of Jews had offered to 
join the Knights of Columbus! It was very typical 
of Jewish character. But let any non-Jew attempt 
to join the B’nai B’rith or the Hebrew Young Men’s 
Association, or the Menorah Society, or any of the 
others: he will see how far the principle of equality 
operates. “We want to be part of yours, but we 
want our own for ourselves,” is the Jewish attitude. 


158 THE INTERNATIONAL JEW 


So, politically, the New York Jew has the advan- 
tage. He belongs, together with the non-Jew, to 
organizations like Tammany or the Republican 
Club—but the non-Jew cannot with him belong to 
the Kehillah. 

It is all so very familiar: the Jew insists on 
double everywhere. In the Balkans he insists on a 
double citizenship. He insists on a double pro- 
tection. He insists on a double standard of edu- 
cation. He insists on all his own religious rights 
as strenuously as he insists that all Christian 
majority rights shall be stamped out in this country. 
He insists that he shall have his Sabbath and that 
you shall not have yours. He wants his own social 
rights and yours too—but he wants you to have 
only your own and not his with it. It casts serious 
doubts on Jewish intelligence that this course should 
be so seriously pursued, as if on the one hand the 
humor of the “nerve,” and on the other hand the 
disgusting impudence of it, had never appeared to 
his consciousness. 

In New York, therefore, the Jew politically be- 
longs twice, while all non-Jews belong but once, 
and it can easily be perceived that this is an advan- 
tage. 

In the previous article it was rehearsed how 
Tammany besmirched its name by association with 
Jews who used the organization as a protection 
for their traffic in vice. This was in 1894. The 
revelations were so terrible that in any other com- 
munity they would have led to a complete abolition 
of any possible chance of recovery, but as it was 
never made plain to the people that the traffic in 
vice was not a sudden appearance of rottenness 
among Americans, but was the normal activity of 
an alien racial strain, the moral power of exposure 
was dissipated. The people were left staggered by 
what they were allowed to believe about the origin of 
the horror. People said it was Tammany because 
the press said it was Tammany, and yet people could 
not understand how it could be Tammany, and so in 
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out. It was exactly like these days when we are 
told that “American business men” abroad are doing 
terrible things; yet even while the press declares 
them to be “American” we cannot understand how 
Americans could do such things—and we never get 
the key to the matter, nor see the solution, until 
we stumble on to the fact that these so-called 
“Americans” are not Americans at all, but alien 
Jews. Over in Canada the name “American” is 
becoming a stigma because it is borne by men who 
are not Americans. What Canadians point out in 
the United States as definitely “American” is 
mostly Jewish, but how are the Canadians to know? 
The national name suffers. The whole cause of evil 
is camouflaged and a nation pays the price of a 
racial group’s misdeeds. There should be some 
method of protecting this forging of national names. 

Thus Tammany became a synonym for what was 
not characteristically Tammany at all, but what was 
characteristically Jewish. 

The exposure of 1894 disclosed that vice was 
really a thing of cold blood. Evil that springs 
from passion and impulse really amounts to far 
less than is commonly supposed. It is when pas- 
sion is deliberately cultivated and impulse stimu- 
lated, that the great bulk of the world’s social evil 
occurs. And this stimulation is undertaken in cold 
blood by those who make profit out of providing the 
means of gratification—like the old-fashioned bar 
keepers who served very salty free lunches to stimu- 
late the sale of beer. 

This kind of vice is not a thing to be shamed 
by exposure as can be done with involuntary vice, 
as it might be called. This cold-blooded merchan- 
dising of human weakness was merely a matter of 
profits, and if business had been interfered with 
by a Lexow Committee it was rather unfortunate, 
but good business required that operations be re- 
sumed at the earliest possible moment. And so, 
though the investigations of 1894 were successful 
and the exposure duly made, it was not to be. ex- 


160 THE INTERNATIONAL JEW 


pected that mere oratory and printer’s ink would 
suffice to keep the serpent down. 

It was only seven years before scandal flamed 
again throughout the length and breadth of New 
York, and strangely enough—strange enough in all 
conscience for “Gentile fronts” of this day and 
generation to heed!—it was found again that the 
traffic in evil and its ramifications all over the land, 
and even to foreign countries, was in the hands of 
Jews. There was no doubt about it. There was even 
no accident about it. The fact was as continuous as 
it was colossal. 

William Travers Jerome, then Justice of the 
Court of Special Sessions, made in 1901 a ringing 
indictment of conditions in the city and used the 
full power of his court to punish wrongdoers; he 
even went so far as to specify individuals and polit- 
ical connections—but he did not mention the key- 
word of it all, which was “Jew.” It was doubtless 
wise for him that he did not, else he could not 
have enjoyed the subsequent political career which 
came to him. 

Tammany was defeated in the election of 1901. 
The defeat was due to the same cause—the stigma 
of Jew-controlled vice traffic under political pro- 
tection. 

It was at this time that Richard Croker “abdi- 
cated.” He was a rich man. He sailed for Ireland, 
where he became a country squire on his Wantage 
estate. 

Public curiosity was fed the statement that 
Croker had selected Lewis Nixon to be his suc- 
cessor, but this turn in Tammany’s career is too 
important to be thus misstated. The truth is that 
when Croker left he surrendered Tammany to the 
Jews. 

Croker could confirm this if he would talk, if he 
should be permitted to talk. It is, however, not well 
to have garrulous old men spilling the secrets of 
other days. Croker.in his age took a bride who is 
said to be of “Indian descent,” and he has not been 
much in touch with his family nor the public since. 


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Lewis Nixon was the convenient and perhaps 
unconscious “Gentile front.” The real ruler of Tam- 
many in Croker’s stead was Andrew Freedman, 
mentioned in the former article as Croker’s friend 
and house mate. 

(Judging from the habit of individual Jews to 
room with baseball players before the baseball 
scandal, and the result of another Jew’s living with 
Croker, it might be just as well to keep an eye 
on those other men who are in positions to do favors 
or influence legislation, whose close cronies happen 
to be Jews. Some of these friendships may indeed 
be perfectly conceived; but there are numerous 
instances where the plans of the “Jewish friend” 
are very completely matured through the agency 
of the “Gentile chum.”’) 

So, upon the departure of Croker from these 
shores, we find Tammany under the dictatorship of 
a Jew who was Croker’s chief influence, if not his 
absolute master. 

But by the time this occurred, it was useless 
for Tammany to rebel. Tammany men who had 
noticed the infiltration of Jews and were alarmed 
by it had consoled themselves with the thought that, 
at least, the higher offices were immune from Jew- 
ish occupation. This consolation served only to 
permit the filling of the lower offices: by Jews, with 
less protest from the membership. By the time the 
Jews were ready to permit Croker to “abdicate,” 
they had permeated every part of the Wigwam and 
the assumption of supreme control was thus made a 
simple matter. Croker stepped aside; instantly into 
his place stepped the Jew, Freedman, operating 
through Nixon. 

It was too late for Tammany to remonstrate. 
Tammany could not protest against the Wigwam 
becoming Jewish, because the Wigwam already 
was Jewish. To remonstrate then was to ruin 
Tammany. Becoming reconciled to what seemed to 
be inevitable, Tammany leaders saw that their only 
hope of survival came through preserving Jewish 
support. 


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Presently even Nixon was relegated to the back- 
ground and Freedman issued his orders directly. 
The Jews, however, with great astuteness continued 
to make much of Nixon, because he was the last 
thin veil which concealed the change which had 
come over Tammany, and he was valuable to that 
extent. He was, unwillingly, perhaps, their pup- 
pet, but even puppets must be accorded their proper 
dignity. Nixon was tendered a great reception in 
1902, but the influential men on the reception com- 
mittee were mostly Jews: Andrew Freedman was 
chairman; then followed the names of Oliver H. P. 
Belmont, Max F. Ihmson, Samuel Untermeyer, 
Nathan Straus, Randolph Guggenheimer, Henry M. 
Goldfogle, Herman Joseph, and others. 

On the executive committee of Tammany Hall 
at this time were Randolph Guggenheimer, Isaac 
Fromme, Nathan Straus, Henry M. Goldfogle, O. H. 
P. Belmont, and other Jews. 

On the committee on law were Samuel Unter- 
meyer, M. Warlet Platzek, Abraham Levy, Henry 
W. Unger, Morris Cukor and Fred 'B. House. 

Andrew Freedman had complete control of the 
committee on finance that was nominally headed by 
Lewis Nixon. 

Randolph Guggenheimer was president of the 
municipal council. 

Ferdinand Levy was on the committee on resolu- 
tions and correspondence. 

Jews had so spread themselves as to constitute 
a controlling group in all the assembly districts 
that were under tribute to Tammany. In the 
“Fighting Eighth” district, Martin Engel was leader. 
His chief aid was “Manny” Eichner, chairman of 
the Isidor Cohn Association and of the Young 
Men’s Democratic Association. His other assist- 
ants, Max J. Porges, Max Levein, and Moe Levy 
were floor managers of the dances and balls of the 
Florence Sullivan Association. 

In the Tenth district, Simon Steingutt, “Mayor 
of Second Avenue,” was one of the hardest workers 
in Tammany affairs. 


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Edward Mandell was the active Jewish Tam- 
many man in the Twelfth district. 

In the Highteenth district, Maurice Blumenthal 
was one of the principal workers. He devoted his 
career chiefly to the training of Jewish speakers 
for the Wigwam. 

The Eighteenth district was known as “the Gas- 
house district,” notorious for the Gashouse scandals 
over padded pay rolls, and here Charley Murphy 
ruled, his aides being Julius Simon, Edward E. 
Slumasky, Joseph Schlesinger, Leopold Worms, 
Hugo Siegel, Alfred B. Marx, Nathan Fernbacher, 
and other Jews. 

And so on through the list. Among the Sachems 
of the Tammany Society there were to be found the 
wealthier and more socially exalted Jews. 

However, the Jews made their cyclically recur- 
ring mistakes: they carried things with too high a 
hand, and rebellion broke out. It is this Jewish 
tendency to boast and overdo that has always given 
the game away. Superficial observers and writers 
like John Spargo and Norman Hapgood have ob- 
served the recurrent periods of protest against Jew- 
ish presumption and bumptiousness and have ex- 
plained them as being recurrent spasms of a vile 
poison which is supposed to reside in the blood of 
the Gentiles—the vile poison of anti-Semitism. 
That, of course, is the conventional Jewish propa- 
gandist explanation, and Spargo and Hapgood are 
merely retailing it. They say it always breaks out 
after wars. Why after wars? ‘Because in wars the 
world sees more clearly than at other times the 
real purpose and personality of the Jew. Thus, 
it is not anti-Semitism that breaks out—it is Semit- 
ism, gross and exaggerated Semitism; and the serum 
that forms in the social body to encist and control 
the germ of Semitism, comes in the form of public 
exposure and protest. That serum is working now 
—the serum of publicity, and the Jewish program 
cannot endure it. Study the history of all things 
whatsoever into which Jews inject themselves, from 


164 : THE INTERNATIONAL JEW 


summer resorts to empires, and you see the same 
cycle appearing. 

Thus it happened in Tammany Hall—“too 
much Jew” engendered revolt. Lewis Nixon became 
aware of his position. As a gentleman of standing 
and responsibility he could not continue in a posi- 
tion whose falsity had become clear to him. When 
he accepted the leadership of Tammany Hall, it 
was not with a purpose to continue the old order. 
His understanding was that he was to be left free 
to restore Tammany to the plane of its former se- 
rious purpose and respectable character. He dis- 
covered that he was being used as the “respectable 
Gentile front” behind whose name the Jews expected 
to carry on the old game. Therefore, in May, 1902, 
three months after the great reception above men- 
tioned, Nixon resigned as leader of Tammany Hall. 
Doubtless the reception that was tendered him was 
for the purpose of inducing him to love the exal- 
tation of his position so much that he would sacri- 
fice its moral obligations. 

Nixon accompanied his resignation with a speech 
in which he protested that ever since he had 
accepted the leadership of Tammany he had been 
hampered in his every action by a group headed 
by Andrew Freedman; they dictated the names that 
were to be placed on the list of Sachems: “When 
I rebelled, I found that at every turn I would be 
opposed by this coterie of interferers; I found that 
all my important acts had to be viséed before they 
could become effective.” He said he could no longer 
retain his position and his self-respect; he had to 
give up one or the other. 

With this Mr. Nixon vanished from the scene 
of Tammany politics. 

The resignation of Mr. Nixon had a bad effect 
on the reputation of Tammany with the public. 
The plan had been to allow him to serve as long 
as ordinarily and then replace him with a Jew by 
means of the usual process of selection. But the 
resignation and the explanation that accompanied 
it, showing as it did the Jewish influence in Tam- 


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many, made it seem inadvisable to follow with a 
Jewish leader. So the district leaders were obliged 
to find another “Gentile front,” only this time one 
who would prove sufficiently docile. There was 
enough rankling disfavor against the Jews in the 
old organization to warrant this observance of 
appearances,, at least. 

The dictatorship of Freedman was seen to be 
a failure, much as the dictatorship of Trotzky is 
seen to be a failure. A rearrangement of commit- 
tees automatically eliminated him from control, at 
the same time the name of Croker was dropped. 
A triumvirate of leaders was chosen, of whom 
Charles F’. Murphy became and remains the chief. 
“Boss Murphy” he is called. Mr. Murphy has been 
an ideal “front,” not attempting to do anything, 
not attempting to interfere with the Jews doing 
anything, keeping wisely silent and thereby gaining 
a reputation for silent wisdom. Mr. Murphy is a 
millionaire. Those who do the higher Jewish 
leaders’ bidding get their reward that way; there is 
no other reward they can hope for; certainly they 
never have the reward of public confidence and the 
people’s gratitude. 

That is the status of Tammany Hall at the 
present time. A few of the Old Guard are left at 
their posts, but they are officers in name only. 
Tammany is no longer denounced by the public 
press, but the Jewish leaders of Tammany live daily 
to a chorus of praise in the Jewish-controlled news- 
papers of New York. Samuel Untermeyer, for 
example, receives more publicity in New York than 
does the President of the United States, but it is 
not discriminating publicity; it does not penetrate 
to the inner purposes and consequences of his 
actions. 

Those who were the lesser Jewish lieutenants 
of Tammany a few years ago have now arrived at 
posts of influence and affluence. Morris Cukor was 
made president of the municipal service commission, 
to be succeeded by former State Senator Abraham 
Kaplan. Fred B. House rose to be a city magistrate. 


166 THE INTERNATIONAL JEW 


The city marshals are mostly Jewish. Jews pre- 
dominate in the College of the City of New York. 
Jews control the municipal courts, the city mag- 
istrates’ courts, the city court, the New York state 
court of appeals, the New York state supreme court. 
They rule in the departments enumerated in the 
fore part of this article. The New York judiciary 
has a distinctly Semitic complexion. 

The leadership of the Tammany-controlled dis- 
tricts tells the same story. In the second, the leader 
is M. S. Levine; in the Sixth, David Lazarus; in 
the Eighth, S. Goldenkranz, F. Bauman and S. 
Salinger; in the Ninth, Mrs. P. Lau, in. the Seven- 
teenth, Nathan Burkan—and so on. 

The Jewish conquest of Tammany, however, is 
only one phase of the conquest of New York. The 
Jewish objective is more than political. Merely to 
strive that the lucrative and powerful officers of the 
city shall fall to their people, is not the end in view. 
New York has been turned into the Red Center of 
America. There most of the alien treason carried 
on against the government of the United States 
has its source. The United States Government has 
been compelled at times to regard New York as al- 
most alien soil, but even that watchfulness on the 
part of the national government is relaxed as Jew- 
ish influence becomes more potent at Washington. 
Tammany is a convenient cover for ostensible 
political activity as the Kehillah is for the more 
radical racial and anti-American racial activity. 
The United States Government could not do better 
than to investigate—through a committee of invul- 
nerable Americans—the Jewish activities of that 
center. And that there is much to investigate is 
indicated by the rush of Jews to Washington when 
it was recently proposed in the United States 
Senate that such a thing be done, 


ssue of October |, 1921. 


LV. 


B’nai B’rith Leader Discusses the 
Jews 


T° THE pro-Jewish spokesmen who have filled 

the air with cries of “lies” and “slander,” to 
those self-appointed guardians of “American 
ideals” who rule out with rare finality all those who 
would dare suggest that possibly there is a hidden 
side of the Jewish Question, it must come as some- 
thing of a jolt to be reminded that in this series 
there is scarcely a line that is without high Jewish 
authority. 

The Protocols themselves are written for centu- 
ries in Jewish authoritative teachings and records. 
All the plans that have been described from time to 
time in these articles are written in the fundamental 
laws of the Jews.. And all that the ancients have 
taught, the modern Jews have reaffirmed. 

The writer of these articles has had to take con- 
stant counsel of prudence in his selection of mate- 
rial, for the Jews have always counted confidently 
on the fact that if the whole truth were told in one 
comprehensive utterance, no one would believe it. 
Thus, bigots and minds bursting with the discover- 
ies they have made, have never been feared by the 
Jews. They counted on the incapacity of the non- 
Jews to believe or receive certain knowledge. They 
know that facts are not accepted on proof, but only 
on understanding. Non-Jews cannot understand 
why human beings should lend themselves to certain 
courses. They are, however, beginning to under- 
stand, and the proof is therefore becoming more 
significant. 

There are yet more important revelations to be 
made, always following closely the best Jewish 
sources, and when these revelations are made, it 
will be impossible for the Jewish leaders to keep 
silent or to deny. The time is coming for American 


168 THE INTERNATIONAL JEW 


Jewry to slough off the leadership which has led it 
and left it in the bog. Leadership knows that. 
Indeed, it is amazing to discover the number of 
indications that the attempts made to suppress THE 
DearporNn INDEPENDENT have been made principally 
to prevent the Jews reading it. - The leaders do not 
care how many non-Jews read these articles; but 
they do not desire their own people to read them. 
The Jewish leaders do not desire their people’s 
eyes to be opened. 

Why? Because, just now, only Jews can truly 
know whether the statements made in these articles 
are true or not. Non-Jews may know here and there, 
as their observations may confirm the printed state- 
ments. ‘But informed Jews really know. And large 
numbers of the masses of the Jews really know. 
When they see the truth in all its relationships in 
these articles, the hitherto “led” Jew may not be so 
tractable. Hence the effort to keep the non-Jewish 
point of view away from him. 

In support of the statements ‘that these articles 
have been based on Jewish authority, we quote today 
a series of declarations by one of the most able of 
the presidents of the B’nai B’rith, Leo N. Levi. Mr. 
Levi was American-born and died in 1904. He was 
a lawyer of distinction and attained the presidency 
of the international Jewish order, B’nai B’rith, in 
1900. He took part in the international politics 
of his people and is credited with collaborating with 
Secretary of State John Hay on several important 
matters. The utterances here quoted were for the 
most made while he was president of B’nai B’rith, 
but all of them were published the year after his 
death under B’nai B’rith auspices. There is there- 
fore no question of their Jewishness. 

Non-Jewish defenders of the Jewish program 
have pretended to much indignation because of ref- 
erences that have been made to the Oriental charac- 
ter of certain Jewish manifestations. The references 
in these articles have been two in number, once 
regarding Oriental sensuality as it has been intro- 


B’NAI B’RITH LEADER DISCUSSES THE JEWS 169 


duced to the American stage by Jewish theatrical 
panderers, and again in quoting Disraeli, the Jew 
who became premier of Britain, to the effect that 
the Jews—his people—were “Mosaic Arabs.” 

But it never seemed to have occurred to Leo N. 
Levi to deny the Oriental character of his race. In- 
stead, he asserted it. On page 104 of the B’nai 
B’rith memorial, he excuses certain social crudities 
of the Jew on the ground “that hailing originally 
from the Orient and having been compelled for 
twenty centuries to live in a society of his own, he 
has preserved in his tastes much that is character- 
istically Oriental.” Again on page 116, he excused 
the multiplicity of religious rites as being due to 
the fact that the Jew “drew upon his Oriental 
imagination for a symbolism that appealed to his 
ideal emotions.” On page 312, he speaks of the Jews’ 
“Oriental devotion to their parents.” This easy 
recognition of the fact is commended to those boot- 
licking editors who, out of the vastness of their 
ignorance of the Jewish Question, have seen in the 
reference to Orientalism an “insult” to the Jews and 
an unfailing indication of anti-Semitism. 

The Jewish Question! Ah, that is another point 
which pro-Jewish spokesmen hasten to deny, but 
they will be somewhat disturbed by the candor with 
which true Jewish spokesmen admit the Question. 

In a strong passage on page 101, Mr. Levi says: 

“If I have dwelt so long upon this subject, it is 
because I recognize that if the Jew has been denied 
so much that is rightfully his, he often claims more 
than is his due. One of these claims, most persist- 
ently urged, is that there is no Jewish Question; 
that a Jew is a citizen like any other citizen and 
that as long as he abides by the law and does not 
subject himself to criminal prosecution or civil 
action, his doings are beyond legitimate inquiry by 
the public at large. 

“This contention on his part would certainly be 
well based if he claimed nothing further than the 
right to live in peace, but when he demands social 


170 THE INTERNATIONAL JEW 


recognition the whole range of his conduct is a 
legitimate subject of inquiry against which no 
technical demurrers can be interposed. . .nor must 
the Jew be over-sensitive about the inquiry. 

“The inconsistencies and the unwisdom exhibited 
in the consideration of the Jewish Question are not 
to be found altogether on the side of those who are 
hostile to the Jews.” 

“Since then the refugees from Russia, Galicia and 
Rumania have raised the Jewish Question to com- 
manding importance. Since then it has dawned on 
the world that we are witnessing another exodus 
which promises soon to change ihe habitat of the 
Jews to the Western Hemisphere.” (Page 59) 

“The Jewish Question cannot be solved by toler- 
ance. There are thousands of well-meaning people 
who take to themselves great credit for exhibiting 
a spirit of tolerance toward the Jews.” (Page 98) 

Mr. Levi also lays down rules for “the study of 
the Jewish Question,” and he says that if they were 
followed the result “would be startling at once to the 
Jews and the general public.” (Page 93) How far 
present Jewish leadership has departed from that 
frank and: broad view taken by Mr. Levi, is every- 
where evident. 

Not that Mr. Levi was a critic of his people, but 
he was a lawyer who was accustomed to weighing 
facts, and he saw facts that weighed against his 
people. But he was pro-Jewish even in his most 
severe observations. He could make an attack on 
the rabbis, taunting them with the saying that 
“many of you are ‘rabbis for revenue only,’” but he 
could also insist on Jewish solidarity and exclu- 
Siveness. 

In this connection it may be interesting to see 
how strongly Mr. Levi supports the contention of 
Jewish leaders (as outlined in THe Drarsorn INpDE- 
PENDENT Of October 9 and 16, 1920) that the Jews 
are a race and not merely a religion, a nation and 
not merely a church, and that the term “Jew” is 
biological rather than theological, This is specially 


B’NAI B’RITH LEADER DISCUSSES THE JEWS 171 


commended to the attention of those dim-minded 
shouters of “religious prejudice,’ who come into 
action whenever the Jewish Question is mentioned. 
(Of “religious prejudice” there are many examples 
to give in future articles. ) 

“Certain it is that thus far the race and the 
religion have been so fused, as it were, that none 
can say just where the one begins and the other 
leaves off.” (Page 116) i 

Attacking the contention of the “liberals” or 
“reformed Jews” to the effect that “Jew” is the 
name of a member of religious denomination, and 
not of a member of a certain race, Mr. Levi says: 

“Nothing to my mind is more pregnant with 
error than this postulate of unreason. (Page 185) 
It is not true that the Jews are only Jews because 
of their religion.” (Page 189) 

“The Jews are not simply an indiscriminate lot 
of people who hold to a common belief.” (Page 190) 

“A native Eskimo, an American Indian might 
conscientiously adopt every tenet of the Jewish 
church, might practice every form and ceremony 
imposed by the Jewish laws and the Jewish ritual, 
and as far as the religion is concerned, be a Jew, 
but yet, no one who will reflect for a moment would 
class them with the Jews as a people. If the truth 
were known, a very large percentage of so-called 
Christians would be found to be believers in the 
essentials of the Jewish religion, and yet, they are 
not Jews. 

“It requires not only that men should believe in 
Judaism, but that they should be the descendants 
in a direct line of that people who enjoyed a tem- 
poral government and who owned a country up to 
the time of the destruction of the second common- 
wealth. 

“That great event took away from the Jews their 
country and their temporal government; it scat- 
tered them over the face of the earth, but it did not 
destroy the national and race idea which was a part 
of their nature and of their religion.” 


172 THE INTERNATIONAL JEW 


“Who shall say, then, that the Jews are no long- 
er a race?....Blood is the basis and sub-stratum 
of the race idea, and no people on the face of the 
globe can lay claim with so much right to purity of 
blood, and unity of blood, as the Jews.” 

“If IT have reasoned to any purpose, the inquiry 
of rights in the premises is not to be limited to 
Jews as exponents of a particular creed, but to the 
Jews as a race.” (Pages 190-191) 

“The religion alone does not constitute the peo- 
ple. As I have already maintained, a believer in the 
Jewish faith does not by reason of that fact become 
a Jew. On the other hand, however, a Jew by birth 
remains a Jew, even though he adbjures his religion.” 
(Page 200) 

This is the view of such men as Justice Brandeis, 
the Jew who sits on the Supreme Court of the 
United States. Justice Brandeis says, “Let us all 
recognize that we Jews are a distinct nationality 
of which every Jew, whatever his country, his sta- 
tion, his shade of belief, is necessarily a member.” 

Believing all this, Mr. Levi subscribes to the 
Jewish law and practice of exclusiveness. 

Describing the state of the Jews, Mr. Levi says 

(page 92): “The Jews have not materially increased 
or diminished in numbers for 2,000 years. They 
have made no proselytes to their religion....They 
have imbibed the arts, the literature and the civili- 
zation of successive generations, but have abstained 
very generally from intermixture of blood... .They 
have infused their blood into that of other peoples 
but have taken little of other peoples into their 
own.” . 
As to intermarriage betweem the Jew and non- 
Jew, Mr. Levi calls it miscegenation. “In remote 
countries, sparsely populated, the choice may lie 
between such marriages and a worse relation.” Those 
are his words on page 249. He does not advise the 
worse relation, but he has said quite enough to indi- 
cate the Jewish view of the case. He continues: 

“Tt seems clear to me that Jews should avoid 


B’NAI B’RITH LEADER DISCUSSES THE JEWS 173 


marriages with Gentiles and Gentiles with Jews, 
upon the same principle that we avoid mqrrying the 
insane, the consumptive, the scrofulitie or the 
Negro.” (Page 249) 

This exclusiveness goes down through all human 
relations. The Jew has one counsel for non-Jews 
and another for himself in these matters. Of the 
non-Jew he demands as a right what he looks down 
upon as shady privilege. He uses the Ghetto as a 
club with which to bludgeon the non-Jew for his 
“bigotry,” when as a fact he chooses the Ghetto for 
well-defined, racial reasons. He condemns the non- 
Jew for the exclusion of the Jew from certain sec- 
tions of society, when as a Jew his whole care is to 
keep himself unspotted from that very society to 
which he seeks entrance. The Jew insists on break- 
ing down non-Jewish exclusiveness while keeping 
his own. The non-Jewish world is to be public and 
common, the Jewish world is to be kept sacrosanct. 
Read the teachings of this enlightened leader of 
Jewry aS published by the B’nai Brrith. 

He favors the public school for non-Jewish 
children, not for Jewish children; they are to be 
kept separate; they are the choice stock of the earth: 

“Because the government tenders free education, 
it does not follow that it must be accepted; if edu- 
cation be made compulsory, it does not follow that 
government schools must be attended....As a citi- 
zen I favor free schools, because the education they 
afford, imperfect as it is, is better than none, and 
society is benefited thereby; but as an individual 
I prefer to pay to support free schools and send my 
children to more select places.” (Page 2538) He 
speaks of the fact that “all classes of children fre- 
quent the public schools” as an argument against 
Jewish children going there. 

“In my judgment, Jewish children should he 
educated in Jewish schools.” (page 254) “Not only is 
it a positive and direct advantage to educate our 
children as Jews, but it is absolutely necessary to 
our preservation. Experience has shown that our 


174 THE INTERNATIONAL JEW 


young people will be weaned from our people if 
allowed indiscriminately to associate with the Gen- 
tiles.” (Page 255) 

Discussing the possibility of Jews losing their 
erudeness, Mr. Levi asks, “How shall we _ best 
accomplish that end?” Then he quotes the frequent 
answer: “Since the exemplars of gentility most 
abound among the Gentiles, we should associate with 
them as much as possible, in order to wear our own 
rudeness away.” He meets the suggestion this way: 

“If gentlemen were willing to meet all Jews on 
a parity because they are Jews, we should doubt- 
less derive much benefit from such association. But, 
while it is true that no gentleman refuses associa- 
tion with another because that other is a Jew, he 
will not, as a rule, associate with a Jew unless he 
be a gentienan. As we are far from being all 
gentlemen, we cannot reasonably expect to be admit- 
ted as a class into good society. So, better keep 
by ourselves,” concludes Mr. Levi. (Page 260) 

That is, Mr. Levi admits the willingness of soci- 
ety to meet Jews on equal terms, as with all others, 
but not on unequal terms. And this being so, Mr. 
Levi holds they had better meet as little as possible, 
they had better keep apart; in the formative years, 
certainly, Jewish young people should be kept rigid- 
ly apart from non-Jews. The exclusiveness of which 
the Jews complain is their own. The Ghetto is not 
a corner into which the non-Jews have herded the 
Semites; the Ghetto is a spot carved out of the com- 
munity and consecrated to the Chosen People and is 
therefore the best section of the city in Jewish eyes, 
the rest being “the Christian quarter,” the area of 
the heathen. Mr. Levi himself admits on page 220 
that there is no prejudice against the Jew in this 
country. 

Certain wild-eyed objectors to the series of stud- 
ies on the Jewish Question have made the assertion 
that THr Derarsorn INpmPENDENT has declared 
cowardice to be a Jewish trait. That the statement 
is false as regards this paper does not change the 


B’NAI B’RITH LEADER DISCUSSES THE JEWS 175 


fact that the subject has been generally discussed in 
and out of army circles. If it ever becomes neces- 
sary to discuss it in these studies, the facts will be 
set forth as far as they are obtainable. But the 
point just now is that Mr. Levi has had somewhat 
to say which may repay reading: 

“Physical courage has always been an incident, 
not an element, of Jewish character. It has no 
independent existence in their make-up, and always 
depended on something else. With some exceptions 
this may be said of all Oriental people. The sense 
and fear of danger is highly developed in them, and 
there is no cultivation of that indifference to it 
which has distinguished the great nations of 
Western Europe.” (Page 205) 

Were a non-Jew to call attention to this differ- 
ence between the Jews and others, he would be met 
with the cry of “anti-Semitism” and he would be 
twitted with the fact that all his relatives may not 
have served in the war. Loudest to twit him would 
be those who served in what our soldiers called “the 
Jewish infantry,” the quartermaster’s corps in the 
late National Army. 

It is to this aversion to danger, however, that 
Mr. Levi attributes the Jews’ greatness among the 
nations. Other nations can fight, the Jews can 
endure, and that, he says, is greater. Note his words 
(the italics are his own): 

“Other nations may boast conquests and 
triumphs born of aggression, but though the fruits 
of victory have been manifold, they have not been 
enduring; and it may be truly said that the nation 
whose greatness grows out of valor passes through 
the stages of discord and degeneracy to decay .... 
In the virture of endurance I believe the Jews have 
a safeguard against the decay that has marked the 
history of all other peoples.” 

It appears, therefore, that the draft-dodger, if 
he can endure long enough, may yet come to own the 
country. 

Jewish leaders have lately tried to minimize as 


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“wild words” the disclosures made by Disraeli with 
reference to the Jews’ participation in European 
revolutions. What Disraeli said can be found in 
his “Coningsby,” or in the quotations made there- 
from in Tur D5ARBoRN INDEPENDENT of December 
18, 1920. With reference to the German Revolution 
of 1848, Disraeli wrote—before it had taken place: 
“You never observe a great intellectual move- 
ment in Europe in which the Jews do not great- 
ly participate .... That mysterious Russian 
Diplomacy which so alarms Western Europe is 
organized and principally carried on by Jews. 
That mighty revolution which is at this moment 
preparing in Germany, and which will be, in 
fact, a second and greater Reformation, and of 
which so little is yet known in England, is en- 
entirely developing under the auspices of Jews.” 

It is interesting, therefore, to hear Mr. Levi con- 
firming from the American side those significant 
statements made by Disraeli. 

“The revolution of 1848 in Germany, however, 
influenced a great many highly educated Jews to 
come to America.” (Page181) “It is unnecessary to 
review the events of 1848; suffice it to say, that not 
a few among the revolutionists were Jews, and that 
a considerable number of those who were proscribed 
by the government at home, fled to the United States 
for safety.” (Page 182) These German Jews are now 
the arch-financiers of the United States. They 
found here complete liberty to exploit peoples and 
nations to the full extent of their powers. They 
still maintain their connections with Frankfort-on- 
the-Main, the world capital of International finan- 
cial Jewry. 

With these quotations from the speeches and 
writings of Leo N. Levi, a famous president of the 
B’nai B’rith, it would seem to be a fair question as 
to the reason for the denial and denunciation which 
have followed the making of these statements in the 
course of this series of studies. Leo N. Levi studied 
the Jewish Question because he knew a Jewish 


B’NAI B’RITH LEADER DISCUSSES THE JEWS 177 


Question to exist. He knew that the Jewish Ques- 
tion was not a non-Jewish creation but appeared 
wherever Jews began to appear in numbers. They 
brought it with them. He knew the justice of many 
of the charges laid against the Jews. He knew the 
impossibility of disproving them, the futility of 
shrieking “anti-Semitism” at them. He knew, more- 
over, that for the Jews to solve the Jewish Question 
by departing from the peculiar racial traditions of 
Superiority, would be to cease to be Jews. There- 
fore, he threw his whole influence on the side of the 
Jews remaining separate, maintaining their tradi- 
tion of The Chosen Race, looking upon themselves 
as the coming rulers of the nations, and there he left 
the Question just about where he found it. 

But in the course of his studies he gave other 
investigators the benefit of his frank statements. 
He did not put les into the mouths of his people. 
He was not endeavoring to maintain himself in posi- 
tion by prejudiced racial appeals. He looked cer- 
tain facts in the face, made his report, and chose his 
side. Several times in the course of his argument, 
his very logic led him up to the point where, logical- 
ly, he would have to cast aside his Jewish idea of 
separateness. But with great calmness he discarded 
the logic and clung to the Jewish tradition. For 
example: 

“The better to facilitate such happiness in every 
country and in every age, various kinds of organiza- 
tions have existed as they exist today. The Jews 
have theirs. 

“For many -reasons they are exclusive. In theory 
they should not be so. In our social organizations 
we should, in deference to the argument which I 
have already named, admit any congenial and 
worthy Gentile who honors us with his application. 
But what may be theoretically correct may be found 
practically wrong. It certainly is a wrong to ex- 
clude a worthy person because he does not happen 
to be a Jew; but on the other hand, where are you 
to draw the line?” 


178 THE INTERNATIONAL JEW 


This is frankness to a fault. Of course, it is 
wrong, but the right is impractical! Logic goes by 
the boards in the face of something stronger. Mr.. 
Levi is not to be blamed for having gone to his tribe. 
Every man’s place is with his tribe. The criticism 
belongs to the lick-spittle Gentile Fronts who have 
no tribe and become hangers-on around the outskirts 
of Judah, racial mongrels who would be better off 
if they had one-thousandth of the racial sense which 
the Jew possesses. 

This brief survey of the philosophy which Mr. 
Levi both lived and taught, and which is shared by 
the leaders of American Jewry, is in strict agree- 
ment with Jewish principles all down the centuries. 
In his published addresses Mr. Levi does not touch 
upon>all the implications of the separateness which 
he enjoins upon his nation. Why do they keep by 
themselves? What is it that keeps them distinct? 
Is it their religion? Very well; let us regard them 
as a sect of religious recluses and wish them well 
in their endeavors to keep themselves unspotted of 
the world. Is it their race? So their leaders teach. 
Race and nationality are strictly claimed. If this 
is so, there must be a political outlook. What is 
it? Palestine? Not that any one can notice. A 
great deal may be read about it in the newspapers, 
the newspapers in turn being supplied through the 
Associated Press with the Jewish Telegraph 
Agency’s propaganda dispatches; but no one in 
Palestine notices the Land becoming more Jewish. 
Jewry’s political outlook is world rule in the ma- 
terial sense. Jewry is an international nation. It 
is this, and nothing else, which gives significance to 
its financial, educational, propagandist, revolution- 
ary and immigration programs, 


Issue of May 14, 1921. 


LVI. 


Dr. Levy, a Jew, Admits His People’s 
Error 


A? EW of standing, Dr. Oscar Levy, well known in 
English literary circles and a lover of his peo- 
ple, has had the honesty and the wisdom to meet the 
Jewish Question with truth and candor. His re- 
marks are printed in this article as an example of 
the methods by which Jewry can be saved in the 
estimation of Twentieth Century Civilization. 

The circumstances were these: George Pitt- 
Rivers, of Worcester College, Oxford, wrote a most 
illuminating brochure entitled, “The World Signifi- 
cance of the Russian Revolution,” which is published 
and sold for two shillings by Basil Blackwell, Oxford. 
The book is the result of unprejudiced observation 
and study and agrees with the statements made in 
Tun DHaRBORN INDEPENDENT about the personnel of 
Bolshevism. The manuscript was sent to Dr. Oscar 
Levy, as a representative Jew, and Dr. Levy’s letter 
was subsequently published as a preface to the book. 

That the reader may understand the tenor of Mr. 
Pitt-Rivers’s book, section XVI, pp. 39-41, is here- 
with given in full, and is followed by Dr. Levy’s 
comments. The italics throughout are intended to 
remind the reader of remarks on similar lines made 
in this series: 

It is not unnaturally claimed by Western Jews 
that Russian Jewry, as a whole, is most bitterly 
opposed to Bolshevism. Now although there is a 
great measure of truth in this claim, since the 
prominent Bolsheviks, who are preponderantly Jew- 
ish, do not belong to the orthodox Jewish Church, it 
is yet possible, without laying oneself open to the 
charge of anti-Semitism, to point to the obvious fact 
that Jewry, as a whole, has, consciously or uncon- 
sciously, worked for and promoted an international 
economic, material despotism which, with Puritan- 


180 THE INTERNATIONAL JEW 


ism as an ally, has tended in an ever-increasing 
degree to crush national and spiritual values out of 
existence and substitute the ugly and deadening 
machinery of finance and factory. It is also a fact 
that Jewry, as a whole, strove every nerve to secure 
and heartily approved of the overthrow of the Rus- 
sian monarchy, which they regarded as their most 
formidable obstacle in the path of their ambitions 
and business pursuits. All this may be admitted, 
as well as the plea that, individually or collectively, 
most Jews may heartily detest the Bolshevik regime, 
yet it is still true that the whole weight of Jewry 
was in the revolutionary scales against the czar’s 
government. It is true their apostate brethren, who 
are now riding in the seat of power, may have ex- 
ceeded their orders; that is disconcerting, but it does 
not alter the fact. It may be that the Jews, often 
the victims of their own idealism, have always been 
instrumental in bringing about the events they most 
heartily disapprove of: ‘that perhaps is the curse of 
the Wandering Jew. 

Certainly it is from the Jews themselves that we 
learn most about the Jews. It is possible that only 
a Jew can understand a Jew. Nay, more, it may be 
that only a Jew can save us from the Jews, a Jew 





racial purity is a source of strength in the rare and 
the great—and inspired enough to overcome in him- 
self the life-destructive vices of his own race. It 
was a Jew who said, “Wars are the Jews’ harvest” ; 
but no harvest so rich as civil wars. A Jew reminds 
us that the French Revolution brought civil eman- 
cipation for the Jews in Western Europe. Was it a 
Jew who inspired Rousseau with the eighteenth cen- 
tury idea of the sameness of man according to na- 
ture? Dr. Kallen, a Zionist author, writes: “Suffer- 
ing for 1,000 years from the assertion of their differ- 
ence from the rest of mankind, they accepted eagerly 
the escape from suffering which the eighteenth cen- . 
tury assertion of the sameness of all men opened to 
them .... They threw themselves with passion into 
the republican emancipating movements of their fel- 


DR. LEVY, A JEW, ADMITS HIS PEOPLE’S ERROR 181 


low subjects of other stocks.” It was a Jew, Ricardo, 
who gave us the nineteenth century ideal of the same- 
ness of man according to machinery. And without 
the Ricardian gospel of international capitalism, we 
could not have had the international gospel of Karl 
Marx. Moses Hess and Disraeli remind us of the 
particularly conspicuous part played by Jews in the 
Polish and Hungarian rebellions, and in the repub- 
lican uprising in Germany of ’48. Even more con- 
spicuous were they in the new internationalism 
logically deducible from the philosophy of Socialism. 
This we were taught by the Jew Marx, and the Jew 
Ferdinand Lasalle, and they but developed the doc- 
trine of the Jew David Ricardo. 

It was Weininger, a Jew—and also a Jew hater— 
who explained why so many Jews are naturally 
Communists. Communism is not only an interna- 
tional creed, but it implies the abnegation of real 
property, especially property in land, and Jews, be- 
ing international, have never acquired a taste for 
real property; they prefer money. Money is an in- 
strument of power, though eventually, of course, 
Communists claim that they will do away with 
money—when their power is sufficiently established 
to enable them to command goods, and exercise 
despotic sway without it. Thus the same motives 
prompt the Jew Communist and his apparent enemy, 
the financial Jew. When owners of real property 
in times of economic depression feel the pinch of 
straightened circumstances, it is the Jewish usurers 
who become most affluent and who, out of goodness 
of their hearts, come to their assistance—at a price. 

To these and other statements, Dr. Levy, as a 
Jew, made this reply: 


Dear Mr. Pitt-Rivers: 


When you first handed me your MS. on The 
World Significance of the Russian Revolution, you 
expressed a doubt about the propriety of its title. 
After a perusal of your work, I can assure you, with 
the best of consciences, that your misgivings were 
entirely without foundation. 


182 THE INTERNATIONAL JEW 


No better title than The World Significance of 
the Russian Revolution could have been chosen, for 
no event in any age will finally have more signifi- 
cance for our world than this one. We are still too 
near to see clearly this Revolution, this portentous 
event, which was certainly one of the most intimate 
and therefore least obvious, aims of the world-con- 
flagration, hidden as it was at first by the fire and 
smoke of national enthusiasms and patriotic antag- 
onisms. 

It was certainly very plucky of you to try and 
throw some light upon an event which necessarily 
must still be enveloped in mist and mystery, and I 
was even somewhat anxious, lest your audacity in 
treating such a dangerous subject would end in fail- 
ure, or what is nearly the same, in ephemeral suc- 
cess. No age is so voracious of its printed offspring 
as ours. There was thus some reason to fear lest 
you had offered to this modern. Kronos only another 
mouthful of his accustomed nourishment for his im- 
mediate consumption. : 

I was, I am glad to report, agreeably surprised— 
surprised, though not by the many new facts which 
you give, and which must surprise all those who take 
an interest in current events—facts, I believe, which 
you have carefully and personally collected and 
selected, not only from books, but from the lips and 
letters of Russian eye-witnesses and sufferers, from 
foes as well as from friends of the great Revolution. 

What I appreciate more than this new light 
thrown on a dark subject, more than the conclusion 
drawn by you from this wealth of facts, is the 
psychological insight which you display in detecting 
the reasons why a movement so extraordinarily 
bestial and so violently crazy as the Revolution was 
able to succeed and finally to overcome its adver- 
_ saries. For we are confronted with two questions 
which need answering and which, in my opinion, 
you have answered in your pamphlet. These ques- 
tions are: (1) How has the Soviet Government, 
admittedly the government of an _ insignificant 
minority, succeeded not only in maintaining but in 


DR. LEVY, A JEW, ADMITS HIS PEOPLE’S ERROR 183 


strengthening its position in Russia after two and 
a half years of power? and (2) Why has the Soviet 
Government, in spite of its outward bestiality and 
brutal tyranny, succeeded in gaining the sympathies 
of an increasing number of people in this country ? 


You rightly recognize that there is an ideology 
behind it and you clearly diagnose it as an ancient 
ideology. There is nothing new under the Sun, it is 
even nothing new that this Sun rises in the East. ... 

For Bolshevism is a religion and a faith. How 
could these half-converted believers ever dream to 
vanquish the “Truthful” and the “Faithful” of their 
own creed, these holy crusaders, who had gathered 
round the Red Standard of the Prophet Karl Marx, 
and who fought under the daring guidance of these 
expericneed officers of all latter-day revolutions—the 
Jews ? 

I am touching here on a subject which, to judge 
from your own pamphlet, is perhaps more interesting 
to you than any other. In this you are right. There 
is no race in the world more enigmatic, more fatal, 
and therefore more interesting than the Jews. 

Every writer, who, like yourself, is oppressed by 
the aspect of the present and embarrassed by lis 
anxiety for the future, MUST try to elucidate the 
Jewish Question and its bearing upon our Age. 

For the question of the Jews and their influence 
on the world past and present, cuts to the root of 
all things, and should be discussed by every honest 
thinker, however bristling with difficulties it is, 
however complex the subject as well as the indi- 
viduals of this Race may be. 

For the Jews, as you are aware, are a sensitive 
Community, and thus very suspicious of any Gentile 
who tries to approach them with a critical mind. 
They are always inclined—and that on account of 
their terrible experiences—to denounce anyone who 
is not with them as against them, as tainted with 
“medieval” prejudice, as an intolerant Antagonist 
of their Faith and of their Race. 

Nor could or would I deny that there is some 


184 THE INTERNATIONAL JEW 


evidence, some prima facie evidence of this antago- 
nistie attitude in your pamphlet. You point out, and 
with fine indignation, the great danger that springs 
from the prevalence of Jews in finance and industry, | 
and from the preponderance of Jews in rebellion and 
revolution. You reveal, and with great fervor, the 
connection between the Collectivism of the immense- 
ly rich international Finance—the Democracy of 
cash values, as you call it—and the international 
Collectivism of Karl Marx and Trotsky—the De- 
mocracy of and by decoy-cries .... And all this evil 
and misery, the economic as well as the political, 
you trace back to one source, to one “fons et origo 
malorum”’—the Jews. 

Now other Jews may vilify and crucify you for 
these outspoken views of yours; I myself shall ab- 
stain from joining the chorus of condemnation! I 
shall try to understand your opinions and your 
feelings, and having once understood them—as I 
think I have—I can defend you from the unjust 
attacks of my often too impetuous Race. But first 
of all, I have to say this: There is scarcely an event 
in modern Europe that cannot be traced back to the 
Jews. Take the Great War that appears to have 
come to an end, ask yourself what were its causes 
and its reasons: you will find them in nationalism. 
You will at once answer that nationalism has noth- 
ing to do with the Jews, who, as you have just 
proved to us, are the inventors of the international 
idea. ‘But no less than Bolshevist Ecstasy and Fi- 
nancial Tyranny can National Bigotry (if I may call 
it so) be finally followed back to a Jewish source— 
are not they the inventors of the Chosen People 
Myth, and is not this obsession part and parcel of 
the political credo of every modern nation, however 
small and insignificant it may be? And then think 
of the history of nationalism. It started in our 
time and as a reaction against Napoleon; Napoleon 
was the antagonist of the French Revolution; the 
French Revolution was the consequence of the Ger- 
man Reformation; the German Reformation was 
based upon a crude Christianity; this kind of Chris- 


DR. LEVY, A JEW, ADMITS HIS PEOPLE’S ERROR 185 


tianity was invented, preached and propagated by 
the Jews; THEREFORE the Jews have made this 
war! .... Please do not think this a joke; it only 
seems a joke, and behind it there lurks a gigantic 
truth, and it is this, that all latter-day ideas and 
movements have originally sprung from a Jewish 
source, for the simple reason, that the Semitic idea 
has finally conquered and entirely subdued this only 
apparently irreligious universe of ours. 

.... There is no doubt that the Jews regularly go . 
one better or worse than the Gentile in whatever 
they do, there is no further doubt that their influence 
today justifies a very careful scrutiny, and cannot 
possibly be viewed without serious alarm. The great 
question, however, is whether the Jews are conscious 
or unconscious malefactors. I myself am firmly 
convinced that they are unconscious ones, but please 
do not think that I wish to exonerate them on that 
account .... A conscious evildoer has my respect, 
for he knows at least what is good; an unconscious 
one—well, he needs the charity of Christ—a charity 
which is not mine—to be forgiven for not knowing 
what he is doing. But there is in my firm conviction 
not the slightest doubt that these revolutionary 
Jews do not know what they are doing; that they 
are more unconscious sinners than voluntary evil- 
doers. 

I am glad to see that this is not an original ob- 
servation of mine, but that you yourself have a very 
strong foreboding about the Jews being the victims 
of their own theories and principles. On page 39 of 
your pamphlet you write: “It may be that the Jews 
have always been instrumental in bringing about the 
events that they most heartily disapprove of; that 
maybe-is the curse of the Wandering Jew.” If I 
had not the honor, as well as the pleasure, of know- 
ing you personally, if I were not strongly aware of 
your passionate desire for light and your intense 
loathing of unfairness, this sentence, and this sen- 
tence alone, which tells the truth, will absolve you 
in my eyes from the odious charge of being a vulgar 
anti-Semite. 


186 THE INTERNATIONAL JEW 


No, you are not a vulgar, you are a very €n- 
lightened, critic of our Race. For there is an antt- 
Semitism, I hope and trust, which does the Jews 
more justice than any blind philo-Semitism, than 
does that merely sentimental ‘“Let-them-all-come 
Liberalism” which in itself is nothing but the Sem- 
itic Ideology over again. And thus you can be just 
to the Jews, without being “romantic” about them. 

You have noticed with alarm that the Jewish 
elements provide the driving forces for both Com- 
munism and capitalism, for the material as well as 
the spiritual ruin of this world. But then you have 
at the same time the profound suspicion that the 
reason of all this extraordinary behavior may be the 
intense Idealism of the Jew. In this you are per- 
fectly right. The Jew, if caught by an idea, never 
thinks any more in watertight compartments, as do 
the Teuton and Anglo-Saxon peoples, whose right 
cerebral hemisphere never seems to know what its 
left twin brother is doing; he, the Jew, like the 
Russian, at once begins to practice what he preaches, 
he draws the logical conclusion from his tenets, he 
invariably acts upon his accepted principles. It is 
from this quality, no doubt, that springs his mys- 
terious force—that force which you no doubt con- 
demn, but which you had to admire even in the Bol- 
shevists. And we must admire it, whether we are 
Jews or whether we are Christians, for have not 
these modern Jews remained true to type, is there 
no parallel for them in history, do they not go to the 
bitter end even in our day? .... 

Who stirred up the people during the late war in 
Germany? Who pretended to have again the truth, 
that truth about which Pontius Pilate once shrugged 
his shoulders? Who pleaded for honesty and clean- 
liness in Politics, that honesty which brings a smile 
to the lips of any experienced Pro-consul of today? 
Writers, who were mostly Jews: Fried, Fernau, 
Latzko, Richard Grelling—the author of “J’accuse.” 
Who was killed and allowed himself to be killed for 
these very ideas and principles? Men and women of 


DR. LEVY, A JEW, ADMITS HIS PEOPLE’S ERROR 187 


the Jewish Race: Haase, Levine, Luxemburg, Lan- 
dauer, Kurt Eisner, the Prime Minister of Bavaria. 
From Moses to Marx, from Isaiah to Eisner, in prac- 
tice and in theory, in idealism and in materialism, 
in philosophy and in politics, they are today what 
they have always been: passionately devoted to their 
aims and to their purposes, and ready, nay, eager, 
to shed their last drop of blood for the realization 
of their visions. 

“But these visions are all wrong,” will you reply. 
....“Look where they have led the world to. Think, 
that they have now had a fair trial of 3,000 years’ 
standing. How much longer are you going to recom- 
mend them to us and to inflict them upon us? And 
how do you propose to get us out of the morass into 
which you have launched us, if you do not change 
the path upon which you have led the world so dis- 
astrously astray?” 

To this question I have only one answer to give, 
and it is this: “You are right.” This reproach of 
yours, which—I feel it for certain—is at the bottom 
of your anti-Semitism, is only too well justified, and 
upon this common ground I am quite willing to 
shake hands with you and defend you against any 
accusation of promoting Race Hatred: Jf you are 
anti-Semite, I, the Semite, am an anti-Semite too, 
and a much more fervent one than even you are.... 
We (Jews) have erred, my friend, we have most 
grievously erred. And if there was truth in our error 
3,000, 2,000, nay, 100 years ago, there is now noth- 
ing but falseness and madness, a madness that will 
produce an even greater misery and an even wider 
anarchy. I confess it to you, openly and sincerely, 
and with a sorrow, whose depth and pain an ancient 
Psalmist, and only he, could moan into this burning 
universe of ours .... We who have posed as the 
saviours of the world, we who have even boasted of 
having given it “the” Saviour, we are today nothing 
else but the world’s seducers, its destroyers, its in- 
cendiaries, its executioners .... We who have prom- 
ised to lead you to a new Heaven, we have finally 


188 THE INTERNATIONAL JEW 


succeeded in landing you into a new Hell .... There 
has been no progress, least of all moral progress 

. And it is just our Morality, which has pro- 
hibited all real progress, and—what is worse—which 
even stands in the way of every future and natural 
reconstruction in this ruined world of ours .... I 
look at this world, and I shudder at its ghastliness ; 
I shudder all the more as I know the spiritual 
authors of all this ghastliness .... 

But its authors themselves, unconscious in this as 
in all they are doing, know nothing yet of this 
startling revelation. While Europe is aflame, while 
its victims scream, while its dogs howl in the con- 
flagration, and while its very smoke descends in 
darker and even darker shades upon our Continent, 
the Jews, or at least a part of them and by no means 
the most unworthy ones, endeavor to escape from 
the burning building, and wish to retire from Europe 
into Asia, from the somber scene of our disaster into 
the sunny corner of their Palestine. Their eyes are 
closed to the miseries, their ears are deaf to the 
moanings, their heart is hardened to the anarchy of 
Europe: they only feel their own sorrows, they only 
bewail their own fate, they only sigh under their 
own burdens ....They know nothing of their duty 
to Europe, which looks around in vain for help and 
guidance, they know nothing even of their own great 
ancestor to whose heart the appeal of pity was 
never made in vain: they have become too poor in 
love, too sick at heart, too tired of battle, and lo! 
these sons of those who were once the bravest of 
soldiers are now trying to retire from the trenches 
to the rear, are now eager to exchange the grim 
music of the whistling shells with that of the cow- 
bells and vintage songs in the happy plain of Sharon 


And yet we are not all Financiers, we are not all 
Bolshevists, we have not all become Zionists. And 
yet there is hope, great hope, that this same race 
which has provided the Evil will likewise succeed in 
supplying its antidote, its remedy—the Good. It has 


DR. LEVY, A JEW, ADMITS HIS PEOPLE’S ERROR 189 


always been so in the past—was not that fatal 
Liberalism, which has finally led to Bolshevism—in 
the very midst of that dark nineteenth century, most 
strenuously opposed by two enlightened Jews— 
Friedrich Stahl, the founder of the Conservative 
Party in Germany, and by Benjamin Disraeli, the 
leader of the Tory Party in England? And if these 
two eminent men had no suspicion yet that their 
own race and its holy message were at the bottom 
of that unfortunate upheaval, with which their age 
was confronted: how eager, how determined, how 
passionate will be the opposition of the Disraelis of 
the future, once they have clearly recognized that 
they are really fighting the tenets of their own peo- 
ple, and that it was their “Good,” their “Love,” their 
“Tdeal,” that had launched the world into this Hell 
of Evil and Hatred. A new “Good” as new Love, a 
true Love, an intelligent Love, a Love that calms and 
heals and sweetens, will then spring up among the 
Great in Israel and overcome that sickly Love, that 
insipid Love, that romantic Love, which has hitherto 
poisoned all the Strength and all the Nobility of this 
world. For Hatred is never overcome by Hatred: it 
is only overcome by Love, and it wants a new and a 
gigantic Love to subdue that old and devilish Hatred 
of today. That is our task for the future—a task 
which will, I am sure, not be shirked by Israel, by 
that same Israel which has never shirked a task, 
whether it was for good or whether it was for evil 


Yes, there is hope, my friend, for we are still 
here, our last word is not yet spoken, our last deed 
is not yet done, our last revolution is not yet made. 
This last Revolution, the Revolution that will crown 
our revolutionaries, will be the revolution against 
the revolutionaries. It is bound to come, and it is 
perhaps upon us now. The great day of reckoning 
is near. It will pass a judgment upon our ancient 
faith, and it will lay the foundation to a new re- 
ligion. And when that great day has broken, when 
the values of death and decay are put into the melt- 


190 THE INTERNATIONAL JEW 


ing-pot to be changed into those of power and beauty, 
then you, my dear Pitt-Rivers, the descendant of an 
old and distinguished Gentile family, may be assured 
to find by your side, and as your faithful ally, at 
least one member of that Jewish Race, which has 
fought with such fatal success upon all the spiritual 
battlefields of Europe. 

Yours against the Revolution and for Life ever 
flourishing, 

OSCAR LEVY, 

ROYAL SOCIETIES CLUB, 
ST. JAMES STREET, 
LONDON, S. W., 
JULY, 1920. 


Issue of April 30, 1921. 


LVII. 


Jewish Idea in American Monetary 
Affairs 


R. BRISBANE says that Jewish bankers exer- 

cise their large measure of control because they 
are abler than the other bankers. It was very good 
of Mr. Brisbane to say so, and it adds to the sum of 
his weekly, almost daily, worship at the Jewish 
shrine, but it is scarcely true. Jewish bankers do 
not yet control the United States, and the principal 
reason they do not is that they are not abler than 
the other bankers. Doubtless they seek control; 
doubtless they have almost grasped it on several 
occasions; but not yet. 

Nevertheless they form such a formidable force, 
and with their international connections constitute 
such a political problem, that the mere fact of their 
failing to top the column of control is not so reassur- 
ing as it sounds. 

The great Jewish banking houses of the United 
States are foreign importations, as perhaps every- 
one knows. Most of them are sufficiently recent to 
be considered in their immigrant status, while the 
thought of them as aliens is stimulated by their re- 
tention of oversea connections. It is this inter- 
national quality of the Jewish banking group which 
largely accounts for Jewish financial power: there 
is team-play, intimate understandings, and while 
there is a margin of competition among themselves 
(as at golf) there is also a wiping out of that margin 
when it comes to a contest between Jewish and 
“Gentile” capital. 

Four conspicuous contemporary names in Jewish- 
American finance are ‘Belmont, Schiff, Warburg and 
Kahn. All of them, even the most recent, are of 
foreign origin. 

August Belmont was the earliest and arrived in 
America in 1837 as the American representative of 


192 THE INTERNATIONAL JEW 


the Rothschilds in whose offices he had been raised. 
His birthplace was that great center of Jewish inter- 
national finance, Frankfort-on-the-Main. He became 
the founder of the Belmont family in America, which 
has largely forgotten its Jewish origin. Politics 
was a part of his concern in this country, and during 
the critical time from 1860 to 1872 he was chairman 
of the National Democratic Committee. His man- 
agement of the Rothschild interests was exceedingly 
profitable to that house, although the operations in 
which he engaged were quite simple compared with 
the operations of the present day. 

Jacob Schiff is another Jewish financier who was 
given to the world by Frankfort-on-the-Main. He 
entered the United States in 1865, after having 
passed his apprenticeship in the office of his father, 
who was also an agent of the Rothschilds. The 
name Schiff runs a long way back without change, 
unlike the name of Rothschild. Originally named 
Bauer, this family of financiers took a new name 
from the red shield which adorned their house in 


the Jewish section of Frankfort and thus became ‘' 


“Rot-schild.”. Commonly the last syllable is pro- 
nounced as if it were “child’’; it is “schild,” shield. 
An epoch-making family in itself, it has trained 
hundreds of agents and apprentices, of whom Jacob 
H. Schiff was one. He became one of the principal 
channels through which German-Jewish capital 
flowed into American undertakings, and his agency 
in these matters gave him a place in many important 
departments of American business, especially rail- 
roads, banks, insurance companies and telegraph 
companies. He married Theresa Loeb, and in due 
time came to be head of the firm i Kuhn, Loeb & 
Company. 

Mr. Schiff, too, was aninestea in politics with a 
Jewish angle, and was perhaps the moving force in 
the campaign which forced Congress and the Presi- 
dent to break off treaty relations with Russia, then 
a friendly nation, on a strictly Jewish question 
which had been skillfully given an American aspect. 
Mr. Schiff was of inestimable assistance to Japan 


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in the war against Russia, but is understood to 
have been disappointed by Japan’s shrewdness in 
preventing too high a return being made for that 
assistance. 

Associated with Mr. Schiff in Kuhn, Loeb & 
Company is Otto Herman Kahn, who is probably 
more international than were either of the two gen- 
tlemen mentioned above and is more constantly en- 
gaged in dabbling in mysterious matters of an in- 
ternational nature. This characteristic may be ac- 
counted for, however, by his experience of many 
countries. He was born in Germany and is also a 
product of the Frankfort-on-the-Main school of 
finance, having had connection with the Frankfort 
Jewish house of Speyer. — 

Of just how many countries Mr. Kahn has been 
a citizen is a question not easy to determine here 
because of the doubt that was recently cast upon 
his American citizenship by a protest against his 
being permitted to cast his vote last year and by 
his failure—the announced cause being physical in- 
disposition—to cast his vote. If Mr. Kahn is a 
citizen of the United States (a status that will be 
readily proclaimed upon proof that he is), that 
probably increases the number of his citizenships to 
three. He was a German citizen by birth, and 
served in the German Army. And in 1914, in 
August, at the time of the outbreak of the European 
War, when efforts were being made, which after- 
ward succeeded, to put Paul M. Warburg, a mem- 
ber of the firm of Kuhn, Loeb & Company, on the 
Federal Reserve Board, Mr. Warburg testified that 
at that time Mr. Kahn was not a citizen of the 
United States. 

Senator Bristew—‘How many of these 
partners are American citizens, or are they all 
American citizens... .” 

Mr. Warburg—“‘They are all American citi- 
zens except Mr. Kahn.”—(P. 7, Senate Hear- 
ings, August 1, 1914.) 

Senator Bristow—‘Now, the members of 


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your firm, are they all American citizens ex- 
cept Mr. Kahn?” | 

Mr. Warburg—“Except Mr. Kahn, yes.” 

Senator Bristow—‘Was Mr. Kahn ever an 
American citizen ?” 

Mr. Warburg—“‘No.” 

Senator Bristow—“He never was?” 

Mr. Warburg—“No; he is a British subject.” 

Senator Bristow—-“He is a ‘British subject ?” 

The Chairman—‘He lives in England, does 
he not?” 

Mr. Warburg—“No. At one time he thought 
he would move to Europe, and that was when 
the question arose of his standing for Parlia- 
ment; then he changed his mind and moved 
back to the United States.” 

Senator Bristow—“He was at one time a 
candidate, or a prospective candidate for Par- 
liament, was he not?” 

Mr. Warburg—“No; he was not; but there 
was talk about it; it had been suggested, and 
he had it in his mind. Something had been 
written about it in the papers.”—(P. 76, Senate 
Hearings, August 3, 1914.) 

So, that if Mr. Kahn is a citizen of the United 
States now, which as a matter of fact has been dis- 
puted, then he has been a citizen of three countries, 
Germany and Great Britain being the other two. 

Mr. Kahn, by the way, is one of those Jews 
whose adoption of another form of faith brings no 
denunciation whatever from the Jews themselves. 
A most peculiar circumstance! But doubtless not 
inexplicable. Mr. Kahn is not called a “renegade 
Jew” nor any of the other nasty names heaped upon 
Jewish converts to Christianity, because he does not 
deserve them. They would not fit him. He is not 
renegade. And he never was regarded for a moment 
by Jacob H. Schiff as anything but a Jew, else that 
“Prince of Israel” would not have chosen him to 
remain in America and run the business of Kuhn, 
Loeb & Company, at a time when it seemed unde- 
sirable to put the junior Schiff in full charge of it. 





JEWISH IDEA IN AMERICAN MONETARY AFFAIRS 195 


Doubtless it was Mr. Kahn’s desire, just at the 
time Jacob Schiff made his wishes known, to go to 
England and stand for Parliament. 

But from New York he fulfills, probably as well 
as he could from London, those mysterious missions 
which frequently take him to the Continent, at which 
times he makes what are regarded as certain authori- 
tative decisions, though just whose decisions it is 
not always possible to say. In Paris particularly, 
and at points east thereof, Mr. Kahn has been estab- 
lished in the position of spokesman of the American 
Financial Hierarchy, which, of course, he is not. 
But he undoubtedly is the spokesman of some group, 
possibly the group which so ably put through the 
Jewish program at the Peace Conference, the group 
that impressed Eastern Europe with the feeling that 
the United States of America was a very powerful 
Semitic empire. Mr. Kahn’s trips abroad are usu- 
ally unheralded, but their results richly repay obser- 
vation. 

A fourth member of the Jewish financial group in 
America (which is the form of statement which Mr. 
Chaim Weizmann would sanction, rather than to 
say “Jewish-American financiers”) is Mr. Paul War- 
burg, to whose testimony we have just alluded. 

Mr. Warburg is the most recent of all. He was 
born in Germany in 1868; he came to the United 
States in 1902; he became an American citizen in 
1911. He came to the United States for the express 
purpose of reforming our financial system, and it is 
hardly possible to understand fully the system in 
operation today without reference to Paul Warburg. 
He is a man of very fine mind, a money-maker, but 
something more—a shrewd student of the systems 
by which money is made. There are two types en- 
gaged in the mere work of money-making which is 
better described as “money- getting,” without refer- 
ence to production; one type grubs away under 
whatever system obtains, regarding it as fixed as the 

solar system; another type is sufficiently detached 
to see the system as an artifice which may be mend- 
ed, remodeled or supplanted altogether. Paul War- 


196 THE INTERNATIONAL JEW 


burg, scion of a long line of German Jewish bank- 
ers, is of the latter type. He is not content with 
the fact that the cash-register fills itself with money ; 
he wants also to know how the cash-register works, 
and whether it can be worked. He is thus a student 
of money and of the number of ways in which it can 
be manipulated. 

Perhaps it will be best to let him tell his own 
story as far as he goes. When he told it to the Com- 
mittee on Banking and Currency of the United 
States Senate in executive session, there was some 
dispute as to whether the proceedings should be re- 
corded by the stenographer. It was finally agreed 
that notes should be made but should not be di- 
vulged. The testimony was printed “in confidence” 
on August 5, 1914, and nominally “made public” on 
August 12. 

The Warburgs are one of the international 
families whose importance was not realized until 
the war, and would not have been realized then if 
their internationalism had not been so apparent. 
It was an interesting spectacle to see brothers occu- 
pying important places of counsel on either side of 
the great struggle. 

Paul Warburg learned the rudiments of banking 
in his father’s bank at Hamburg, Germany, study- 
ing the over-sea trade which is the foundation of 
that city’s business. The banking house of Warburg 
in Hamburg dates from 1796. 

“After that I went to England, where I stayed 
for two years, first in the banking and discount firm 
of Samuel Montague & Company, and after that I 
took the opportunity of staying two months in the 
office of a stockbroker in order to learn that part of 
the business. 

“After that I went to France, where I stayed in 
a French bank, so that—” 

The Chairman—“What French bank was that?” 

Mr. Warburg—“It is the Russian bank for for- 
eign trade, which has an agency in Paris. 

“And after that I went back to Hamburg and 
worked there again for a year, I think. 


JEWISH IDEA IN AMERICAN MONETARY AFFAIRS 197 


“Then I went round to India, China and Japan. 

“And then I came to this country for the first 
time in 1895. I stayed here only a short time then, 
and went back to Hamburg, and then became a 
partner of the firm in Hamburg.” 

The Chairman—‘How long were you in Ham- 
burg then in the banking business?” 

Mr. Warburg—“Until 1902... . And then I 
moved over here to this country to become a partner 
of Kuhn, Loeb & Company.” 

“YT explained in the curriculum which I gave you, 

Mr. Chairman, that by marriage I am related to 
members of the firm, the late Mr. Loeb having been 
my father-in-law, which brought about a desire on 
the part of the family to bring me over here. . 
I ought to say that I got married in this country in 
1895 and that I have been in this country every year 
since, for several months . . . . That is the history 
of my banking education.” 

It will be recalled that Jacob H. Schiff also mar- 
ried a daughter of Mr. Loeb, so that Mr. Warburg 
married the sister of Mrs. Jacob H. Schiff. Felix 
Warburg, Paul’s brother, who is also in the firm, 
married Mr. Schiff’s daughter. 

Mr. Warburg immediately cast a critical eye 
upon the state of financial affairs in the United 
States and it is significant of the grasp he already 
had on such matters that he found the country 
rather behind the times. . 

He conceived the ambition—the very daring am- 
bition—of taking hold of the United States’ mone- 
tary system and making it what he thought it ought 
to be. 

This alone would make him a remarkable man. 
It illustrates very well that detached point of view 
which the Jew is more fitted to take than any other 
man perhaps. He sees countries and systems with 
the same freedom from intimate bias with which 
another man would view assorted fish upon a mar- 
ket stall. Most of the world is engaged in doing its 
work and indulging its national, racial, domestic 
and social affections and inclinations; a small min- 


198 THE INTERNATIONAL JEW 


ority stands in the background and watches the en- 
tire mass at its unconscious maneuvers, and studies 
it as an observer studies a hive of bees. The man 
at work has no time except for his job. One man, 
standing back and studying 1,000 men at work, is 
able to see how he might utilize their labor or pos- 
sess himself of a first toll on their production. 
Doubtless there must be men to stand at a sufficient 
distance from things to get a correct idea of their 
interrelationship, and doubtless such an attitude 
may be made of great service to the race, but doubt- 
less it has also contributed to the selfish manipula- 
tion of natural and social processes. 

Mr. Warburg testified: ‘When I came here I 
was at once impressed by the lack of system, by the 
old-fashioned nature of the system that prevailed 
here; and I got immediately into one of those peri- 
ods of high interest rates, where call money went up 
to 25 and 100 per cent; and I wrote an article on 
the subject then and there for my own benefit. 

“fT was not here three weeks before I was 

trying to explain to myself the roots of the evil. 
I showed the article to a few friends but I kept 
it in my desk, because I did not want to be one 
of those who try to inform and educate the 
country after they have been here for a month 
or so; and I kept that article until the end of 
1906, shortly before the panic, when those con- 
ditions arose again, and when one newspaper 
wanted for an issue at the end of the year an 
article dealing with the conditions in our coun- 
try. 

“Then I took out that article and touched it 
up and brought it up to date; and that was the 
first article of mine that was published. It was 
called, ‘Defects and Needs of Our Banking Sys- 
TEMG, Bas 

“That was, however, the first time that I 
know of that the question of the discount sys- - 
tem and the concentration of reserves was really 
brought out; and I got a great many encourag- 


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ing letters asking me to go on and explain my 
ideas.” 

Mr. Warburg was perfectly willing to talk 
to the committee about himself, but not about 
Kuhn, Loeb & Company, his firm. 

“T cannot discuss the affairs of my firm nor 
my partners,” he said, “nor be asked to criti- 
cise acts of my partners, either to approve 
them or in any other way,” but eventually he 
did tell a number of things which students of 
American financial affairs have considered in- 
teresting. Of which more later. 

On page 77 of the testimony, more personal 
matters appear: 

Senator Bristow—“When did you become a 
citizen of the United States, Mr. Warburg?” _ 

Mr. Warburg—“1911. Did I not answer 
that?” 

Senator Bristow—‘Perbaps so. Did you in- 
tend to become a citizen when you came to the 
United States in 1902?” 

Mr. Warburg—“I had no definite intentions 
then, because some of the reasons that brought 
me over here were family reasons; . . . . That 
had a good deal to do with my first coming here; 
and I was not sure at all that I would stay 
here when I came.” 

Senator Bristow—‘When did you decide to 
become a citizen of the United States?” 

Mr. Warburg—“In 1908, when I took out 
my papers.” 

Senator ‘Bristow—‘When you took out your 
first papers? You took out your second papers, 
then, in 1911?” 

Mr. Warburg—“Yes.” 

Senator Bristow—“You made your declara- 
tion in 1908; that is when you decided to be- 
come an American citizen?” 

Mr. Warburg—“Yes.” 

Senator Bristow—‘Why did you wait as 
long as you did after you came to this country, 


200 THE INTERNATIONAL JEW 


before deciding to become a citizen of this coun- 
LIV ee 

Mr. Warburg—“TI think that a man that does 
not come here as an immigrant; a man who has 
had, if you may call it such, a prominent posi- 
tion in his own country, will not give up his 
nationality so easily as a man who comes over 
here knowing that he does not care for his own 
country at all. I had been a very loyal citizen 
of my own country; and [ think that a man who 
hesitates in giving up his own nationality and 
taking a new one, is apt to be more loyal to his 
new country when he does change his national- 
ity than a man who gives up his old country 
more lightly.” 

Senator Bristow—“Yes.” 

Mr. Warburg—“I may add this: That a 
thing which had a great deal of influence on 
my making up my mind to remain ia this coun- 
try and work here, and become a part and par- 
cel of this country, was that monetary reform 
work, for I felt I had a distinct duty to perform 
here; and I thought I could do that; and in 
fact I have been working on it since 1906 or 
1907. 

“Then I felt that it was the right thing for 
me to become an American citizen and work 
here and throw in my lot definitely with this 
country.” 

Senator Bristow—“‘When you became an 
American citizen; and the motive which induced 
you to become an American citizen was, then, 
as I understand it, largely with a view of labor- 
ing to bring about a reform of the American 
monetary system ?” 

Mr. Warburg—‘Well, you put it nearly ex- 
clusively on that. I think a man wants to feel 
that he is going to do some useful work in his 
country; that he has a mission to perform; and 
that is what happened tome... . Moreover, 
I had been long enough in this country then to 


JEWISH IDEA IN AMERICAN MONETARY AFFAIRS 201 


have thoroughly taken root and feel that I was 
a part and parcel of it.” 

Senator 'Bristow—“Yes. When did you first 
become active in promoting the monetary re- 
forms in the United States?” 

Mr. Warburg—‘1906.” 

Senator Bristow—‘What was your method 
of promoting your ideas with regard to mone- 
tary reforms?” : 

Mr. Warburg—“Mainly writing.” 

Senator Bristow—“Were you connected with 
the Monetary Commission ?” 

Mr. Warburg—“No, not directly ... .” 

Senator Bristow—‘Were you consulted in 
regard to the report of the Monetary Commis- 
sion in any way?” 

Mr. Warburg—“Yes, Senator Aldrich con- 
sulted with me about details, and I gave him my 
advice freely.” 

Senator Bristow—“And in regard to the bill 
which was prepared by Senator Aldrich in con- 
nection with the commission, were you consult- 
ed in regard to that?” 

Mr. Warburg—“Yes.” 

Senator Bristow—‘What part did you have 
in the preparation of that bill, directly or in- 
directly ?” 

Mr. Warburg—“‘Well, only that I gave the 
best advice that I could give.” 

Most readers will recall that the name of “Ald- 
rich” was, a few years ago, the synonym for the 
money power in government. Senator Aldrich was 
an able man and a tireless worker. His character 
for thoroughness and industry did more than any- 
thing else to disabuse the popular mind of the notion 
that such men were mere ‘tools of the money inter- 
est,” or engaged in their work out of lust for gain, 
or out of sheer pleasure in legislating against the 
interests of the people. Senator Aldrich led on 
tariff and financial matters because he understood 
them; and he understood them by tireless study of 
them; and, therefore, he was the master of other 


202 THE INTERNATIONAL JEW 


men who had not paid the price of knowledge. But, 
he understood these matters from the standpoint of 
the business interests only. He was sincerely de- 
sirous of the prosperity of the country, but that 
prosperity was written in banking balances. Fif- 
teen years ago it might not have been possible to 
judge him thus calmly, because then he represented 
in the public mind, more than any individual does 
today, the concentrated power of the financial group. 
Their prosperity was his first care, possibly because 
he believed that their prosperity was also the coun- 
try’s. 

It was such a man, then, that came to Mr. War- 
burg for advice. The labors of Senator Aldrich com-. 
prise many volumes of difficult material and Senator 
Aldrich’s appeal to Mr. Warburg was a very high 
compliment to the quality of the latter’s mind and 
financial experience—this, of course, assuming that 
Mr. Warburg’s counsel was not forced upon the Al- 
drich committee by the New York money interests. 

In his testimony, Mr. Warburg did not tell all. 
The omission, however, was supplied by an article 
in Leslie’s Weekly in 1916, the author being B. C. 
Forbes. 

It is a story of which Current Opinion said: “It 
reads like the opening in a shilling shocker.” 

It appears that the conferences between Mr. War- 
burg and Senator Aldrich took place on an isolated 
island off the coast of Georgia—Jekyl Island. In- 
cluded in the party, besides Senator Aldrich and 
Mr. Warburg, were two New York bankers and the 
then Assistant Treasurer of the United States. The 
mysteriousness of it all was well brought out by 
Mr. Forbes: 

“Picture a party of the nation’s greatest 
bankers stealing out of New York on a private 
railroad car under cover of darkness, stealthily 
hieing hundreds of miles south, embarking on 
a mysterious launch, sneaking out to an island 
deserted by all but a few servants, living there 
a full week under such rigid secrecy that the 
name of not one of them was once mentioned 


JEWISH IDEA IN AMERICAN MONETARY AFFAIRS 203 


lest the servitors learn their identity and dis- 
close to the world this strangest, most secret 
episode in the history of American finance. 

“The utmost secrecy was enjoined upon all. 
The public must not glean a hint of what was 
to be done. Senator Aldrich notified each one 
to go quietly into a private car which the rail- 
road had received orders to draw up at an un- 
frequented platform. Drawn blinds balked any 
peering eyes that might be around. Off the party 
set. New York’s ubiquitous reporters had been 
foiled. So far so good. After bowling along 
the railroad hour after hour into southern coun- 
try, the order was given to prepare to disem- 
bark. 

“Stepping from the car when the station had 
been well cleared of travelers, the members of 
the expedition embarked in a small boat. Si- 
lence reigned, for the boatmen must not find 
out how distinguished were their passengers. 

“In due time they drew up at another de- 
serted pier. They were at Jekyl Island, off 
Georgia. The island was entirely unpeopled 
save for half a dozen servants. 

“<The servants must under no circumstances 
learn who we are,’ cautioned Senator Aldrich. 

“What can we do to fool them?’ asked an- 
other member of the group. The problem was 
discussed. 

“*T have it,’ cried one. ‘Let’s all call each 
other by our first names. Don’t ever let us men- 
tion our last names.’ 

“It was so agreed. 

“The dignified veteran Senator Aldrich, king 
of Rhode Island and a power second to none in 
the United States Senate, became just ‘Nelson’; 
7 . and the quiet, scholarly member of the 
powerful international banking firm of Kuhn, 
Loeb & Company, became ‘Paul.’ 

“Nelson had meanwhile confided to Harry, 
Frank, Paul and Piatt that he was to keep them 
locked up on Jekyl Island, cut off from the rest 


204 THE INTERNATIONAL JEW 


of the world, until they had evolved and com- 
piled a scientific currency system for the United 
States, a system that would embody all that 
was best in Europe, yet so modeled that it could 
serve a country measuring thousands where 
European countries measured only hundreds of 
miles.” 

Mr. Forbes does not omit to write this further 
description of Mr. Warburg’s condition at the time: 
“unable then to speak idiomatic English with 
perfect freedom and without an accent, an alien 

not naturalized.” 

Mr. Forbes also wrote—“Here is a German-Amer- 
ican, but the sort of one that makes the hyphen look 
like a badge of honor.” 

That was in 1916. Hyphens went out of fashion, 
though not entirely out of use, soon after. 

Thus far the story of Paul Warburg. 


Issue of June 18, 1921. 


LVIII. 


Jewish Idea Molded Federal Reserve 
Plan 7 


THE last view the reader had of Paul M. Warburg 

in the preceding articlé was as “an alien not 
naturalized” secretly closeted with Senator Nelson 
W. Aldrich and a party of bankers on an obscure 
island off the southeastern coast of the United 
States, all the members of the party concealing 
their identity even from the servants by calling each 
other by their first names. 

‘That conference in its ultimate results was of 
the utmost importance to the United States, for then 
and there were formulated those fiscal devices, those 
financial methods, those “monetary reforms” which 
have exerted an influence on every citizen, rich and 
poor, of the Republic. 

Much history was made in that little trip. It 
irresistibly calls to memory that other trip made in 
1915—almost two years before America’s entry into 
the war—by Bernard M. Baruch. As readers of 
THe DrarBorN INDEPENDENT of November 27, 1920, 
will recall, Mr. Baruch had been financial backer of 
the Plattsburg camp, and in his testimony he said 
he thought that General Wood would admit this. 
Then—“I went off on a long trip, and it was while 
on this trip that I felt there ought to be some mobi- 
lization of the industries, and I was thinking about 
the scheme that practically was put into effect and 
was working when I was chairman of the board. 
When I came back from that trip I asked for an 
interview with the President . . . . The President 
listened very attentively and graciously as he al- 
ways does.” Mr. Baruch was an authority on the 
President’s demeanor, for there was a long period 
in 1917 and 1918 during which he called at the 
White House every afternoon. 

Two momentous trips in our recent history, both 


206 THE INTERNATIONAL JEW 


of them signalized and given their principal mean- 
ing by the presence of Jews. Not that there should 
not have been Jews in either case; to insist upon 
their total exclusion would be going too far. The 
Jew as a citizen, bearing his part, is one matter; 
the Jew as a master, directing the national show, 
is quite another thing. It is by no means agreed 
that Barney Baruch was the only man in the United 
States who could have run this nation’s war busi- 
ness. That is the explanation made of the high 
place he took—that he was the only man who could 
do it. Nonsense! If that be so, let us close up the 
nation and hand the keys over to the New York 
Kehillah. Mr. Baruch could say—‘“I probably had 
more power than any other man did in the war; 
doubtless that is true,” but he had that power be- 
cause he was for the time the head and front of the 
Jewish group for war purposes. 

If the explanation of Jewish mastery at critical 
moments were “brains,” well and good, but if it 
were, it would be more evident to the people; brains 
do not need to be advertised, they advertise them- 
selves. There is another reason. 

The British public recently awoke to the fact 
that not Lloyd George but Mr. Montagu and Sir 
Alfred Mond were in charge of the recent negotia- 
tions over the German indemnities. These gentle- 
men are both Jews, dne of them of German descent. 
Of ali the British Empire are they the only two men 
to advise the premier in a great crisis? If they are, 
why is it? The Montagus, we know, control the 
silver of the world; Sir Alfred Mond, we know, 
turned the very neat trick of keeping the sign of 
the Cross off the war memorials raised to the sol- 
diers of the empire; their Jewishness always so ap- 
parent. Both financiers; both the close advisers of 
the premier; as Baruch to Wilson, so they to Lloyd 
George. | 

Apparently there are no Anglo-Saxons on either 
side of the sea capable of managing these deep mat- 
ters, if we are to judge from the war administra- 
tions—those that have passed off the stage and those 


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that still linger. Lloyd George, for once stung to 
the quick by the criticism of the British public of 
his tendency to closet himself with Jews when con- 
fronted with a crucial question, retorted bitterly— 
with what? With the old outworn Jewish propa- 
gandist boast, that it ill became people who sang 
Jewish psalms in church to rag the race that wrote 
them! A most illuminating defense! The world 
would give a good deal for a true psalm from Sir 
Alfred Mond, Mr. Montagu, or even Sir Philip Sas- 
soon, who is soon to become the premier’s son-in-law. 

In our own history, Barney Baruch boldly claims 
his place, he unhesitatingly asserts that he had more 
power than any man in the war. If Allenby in Pal- 
estine needed a locomotive, if the Americans in 
Russia needed clothing, if the munition mills needed 
copper—it was Baruch who gave or withheld the 
word. 

Mr. Warburg, being of somewhat finer grain, 
probably due to his having less than Mr. Baruch of 
the rough experience of “the Street,” does not make 
the claim that he is the chief factor in the present 
monetary system of the United States, nor does THE 
DEARBORN INDEPENDENT undertake to make it for 
him lest the cry of:“anti-Semitism” wax wrathful 
again; but fortunately the fact is amply attested by 
a Jew whose knowledge of the matter is unques- 
tionable. 

Readers have doubtless become aware by this 
time that for a non-Jew to say that a certain Jew 
is a most important factor in any field is to be guilty 
of anti-Semitism, while for a Jew or a “Gentile 
front” to say it is perfectly proper. It is a rather 
odd etiquette in which simple minds sometimes be- 
come confused. 

Professor E. R. A. Seligman, of Columbia Uni- 
versity, is the sponsor of this great honor for Mr. 
Warburg. What Professor Seligman says is of such 
importance, both as to its source and its subject, 
that quotation is justified: (the italics in all cases 
are ours) 

“Tt is in a general way eewil to the public that 


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Mr. Warburg was in some way connected with the 
passage of the Federal Reserve Act, and his appoint- 
ment to his present responsible position on the Fed- 
eral Reserve Board was acclaimed on all sides with 
a rare degree of approval and congratulation; but I 
fancy it is known only to a very few how great is 
the indebtedness of the United States to Mr. War- 
burg. For it may be stated without fear of contra- 
diction that in its fundamental features the Federal 
Reserve Act is the work of Mr. Warburg more than 
of any other man in the country... . 

“When the Aldrich commission was appointed it 
was not long before Senator Aldrich—to his credit 
be it said—was won over by Mr. Warburg to the 
adoption of these two fundamental features. The 
Aldrich Bill differed in some important particulars 
from the present law... . The concession in the 
shape of the twelve regional banks that had to be 
made for political reasons is, in the opinion of Mr. 
Warburg as well as of the writer of this introduc- 
tion, a mistake; for it will probably, to some extent 
at least, weaken the good results which would oth- 
erwiss have followed. On the other hand, the ex- 
istence of a Federal Reserve Board creates, in every- 
thing but in name, a real central bank; and it de 
pends largely upon the wisdom with which the board 
exercises its great powers as to whether we shall be 
able to secure most of the advantages of a central 
bank without any of its dangers . . 

“In many minor respects also the Federal Re- 
serve Act differs from the Aldrich Bill; but in the 
two fundamentals of combined reserves and of a dis- 
count policy, the Federal Reserve Act has frankly 
accepted the principles of the Aldrich Bill; and 
these principles, as has been stated, were the crea- 
tion of Mr. Warburg and of Mr. Warburg alone. 

“. . « « It must not be forgotten that Mr. War- 
burg had a practical object in view. In formulating 
his plans and in advancing slightly varying sugges- 
tions from time to time, it was incumbent on him 
to remember that the education of the country must 
be gradual and that a large part of the task wus to 


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break down prejudices and remove suspicions. His 
plans. therefore contain all sorts of elaborate sug- 
gestions designed to guard the public against fan- 
cied dangers and to persuade the country that the 
general scheme was at all practicable. It was the 
hope of Mr. Warburg that with the lapse of time it 
might be possible to eliminate from the law not a 
few clauses which were inserted, largely at his sug- 
gestion, for educational purposes. 

“As it was my privilege to say to President Wil- 
son when originally urging the appointment of Mr. 
Warburg on the Federal Reserve Board, at a time 
when the political prejudice against New York bank- 
ers ran very high, England also, three-quarters of a 
century ago, had a practical banker who was virtu- 
ally responsible for the idea contained in Peel’s 
Bank Act of 1840. Mr. Samuel Jones Lloyd was 
honored as a consequence by the British Government 
and was made Lord Overstone. The United States 
was equally fortunate in having with it a Lord 
Overstone.... 

“The Federal Reserve Act will be associated in 
history with the name of Paul M. Warburg... .”— 
(pp. 387-390, Vol. 4, No. 4, Proceedings of the Acad- 
emy of Political Science, Columbia University). 

It surely cannot be considered invidious for Tun 
DEARBORN INDEPENDENT thus to introduce to the 
people of the United States a gentleman whose in- 
fluence upon the country is so vital. Just how vital 
can be understood only by those who have studied 
the puzzle of a country filled with the good things 
of life, and still unable to use them or to share them 
because of a kink in the pipe line called “money.” 

But that Mr. Warburg himself is not entirely 
unaware of his position is indicated on page 56 of 
his testimony quoted last week. Mr. Warburg had 
just told the Senate Committee that he was making 
a heavy financial sacrifice to accept the position on 
the Federal Reserve Board offered him by President 
Wilson, and into the fitness of which appointment 
the Senate was carefully inquiring: 

Senator Reed—“May I ask what your mo- 


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tive is, or your reason for making that sacri- 
fice?” 

Mr. Warburg—“My motive is that I have, as 
you know, taken a keen interest in this mone- 
tary reform since I have been in this country. 

“T have had the success which comes to few 
people, of starting an idea and starting it so 
that the whole country has taken it wp and it 
has taken some tangible form.” 

Professor Seligman advises us of the strategy 
that was used to get the whole country to take up 
Mr. Warburg’s idea, and of the fact that some of 
the items inserted to appease the public might eas- 
ily be removed when the public shall have become 
accustomed to Mr. Warburg and the Federal Re- 
serve Board; but Mr. Warburg adds another hint, 
to the effect that you can do some things by admin- 
istration which you cannot do by organization. 

For example: Mr. Warburg wanted only one 
central bank which should be the sole arbiter of 
finance in the United States. The United States 
Government would have almost nothing to do save 
to make the money and stand back of it; the bank- 
ers of the United States, and the people thereof, 
would have nothing to do except what they were 
told; the one central bank would be the real finan- 
cial ‘Zov erning authority. 

When asked by Senator ‘Bristow to state the 
fundamental difference between the Aldrich plan 
and the present Federal Reserve plan, Mr. Warburg 
replied: 

“Well, the Aldrich Bill brings the whole sys- 
tem into one unit, while this deals with 12 units, 
and unites them again into the Federal Reserve 
Board. It is a little bit complicated, which 
objection, however, can be overcome in an ad- 
ministrative way; and in that respect I freely 
criticized the bill before it was passed.” 

There is evidently, then, a method of administra- 
tion for which severe critics might even use the word 
“manipulation,” by which the plain provisions of a 


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banking law, whatever they may be, may be, if not 
evaded, then somewhat adapted. 

This idea is brought to mind by a more colloquial 
expression of Mr. Warburg’s to be found in his ad- 
dress on “bank acceptances” delivered in 1919: 

“In this connection I am reminded of a story 
I once heard concerning a man belonging to a 
Species now soon to be extinct and to be found 
by our children in Webster’s dictionary only, 
the ‘bartender.’ A man of this profession, in 
pre-historic times, was abandoning his position 
and was turning over his cash-register to his 
successor. ‘Please show me how it works,’ said 
the newcomer. ‘J will show you how it works, 
said the other, ‘but I won’t show you how to 
work it” 

The politics of Mr. Warburg and the firm of 
Kuhn, Loeb & Company formed part of the inquiry, 
and Mr. Warburg made some interesting revelations, 
which illustrate the oft-repeated statement that it is 
part of Jewish policy—perhaps of large financial 
firms generally—to attach themselves to both par- 
ties so that certain interests may be the winners 
regardless of which party is defeated. 

Senator Pomerene—‘“What are your poli- 
tics ?” 

Senator Nelson—“No; we have not raised 
that before this committee.” 

Senator Reed—‘“It has not been raised here, 
but I should like to know.” 

Senator Pomerene—“It has been raised be- 
fore the Senate.” 

Senator Reed—“I will say why I should like 
to know.” 

Senator Pomerene—“Well, I have no objec- 
tion to saying what was in my own mind.” 

The Chairman—“I will say that I do not 
know what Mr. Warburg’s politics are.” 

Senator Pomerene—‘Well, I did not.” 

Senator Shafroth—“I do not know and I do 
not care to know.” 

Senator Pomerene—“T heard the statement 


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made that the entire board was Democratic, and 
I had understood that Mr. Warburg was a Re- 
publican, or had been, in his affiliations.” 

Mr. Warburg—“Well, so I was; and my sym- 
pathies were entirely, in the early campaign, for 
Mr. Taft against Mr. Roosevelt in the first fight. 
When later on Mr. Roosevelt became President 
Wilson’s opponent my gh Rc went with 
Mr. Wilson. .. 

Senator Reed—“Well, you would count 
yourself a Republican, generally speaking ?” 

Mr. Warburg—“I would.” 

Senator Bristow—“It has been variously re- 
ported in the newspapers that you and your 
partners directly and indirectly contributed 
very largely to Mr. Wilson’s campaign funds.” 

Mr. Warburg—‘Well, my partners—there is 
a very peculiar condition—no; I do not think 
any one of them contributed largely at all; 
there may have been moderate contributions. 
My brother, for instance, contributed to Mr. 
Taft’s campaign.” 

Senator Bristow—‘Just what would you 
consider a moderate contribution to a presi- 
dential campaign ?” 

Mr. Warburg—“Well, that depends who the 
man is who contributes; but I think anything 
below $10,000 or $5,000 would not be an extrav- 
agant contribution, so far as that should be—” 

(Examination resumed another day.) 

Senator Bristow—“Now, Mr. Warburg, when 
we closed Saturday some Senator asked you in 
regard to political contributions, and I under- 
stood you to say that you contributed to Mr. 
Wilson’s campaign.” 

Mr. Warburg—“No; my letter says that I 
offered to contribute; but it was too late. I came 
back to this country only a few days before the 
campaign closed.” 

Senator Bristow—“So that you did not make 
any contribution?” 


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Mr. Warburg—“I did not make any contri- 
bution; no.” 

Senator Bristow—“Did any members of your 
firm make contributions to Mr. Wilson’s cam- 
paign ?” 

Mr. Warburg—“I think that is a matter of 
record. Mr. Schiff contributed. I would not 
otherwise discuss the contributions of my part- 
ners, if it was not a matter of record. I think 
Mr. Schiff was the only one who contributed in 
our firm.” 

Senator Bristow—“And you stated that your 
brother had contributed to Mr. Taft’s campaign, 
as I understand it?” ) 

Mr. Warburg—‘“I did. But again, I do not 
want to go into a discussion of my partners’ af- 
fairs, and I shall stick to that pretty strictly, or 
we will never get through.” 

Senator Bristow—“I understood you also to 
say that no members of your firm contributed 
to Mr. Roosevelt’s campaign.” 

Mr. Warburg—“I did not say that.” 

Senator Bristow—“‘Oh! Did any members of 
the firm do that?” 

Mr. Warburg—“My answer would please you 
probably; but I shall not answer that, but will 
repeat that I will not discuss my partners’ 
affairs.” 

Senator Bristow—“Yes. I understood you 
to say Saturday that you were a Republican, but 
when Mr. Roosevelt became a candidate, you 
then became a sympathizer with Mr. Wilson and 
supported him?” 

Mr. Warbure—“Yes.” 

Senator Bristow—‘While your brolier was 
supporting Mr. Taft?” 

Mr. Warburge—“Yes.” 

Senator Bristow—“And I was interested to 
know whether any member of your firm sup- 
ported Mr. Roosevelt.” 

Mr. Warburg—“It is a matter of record that 
there are.” 


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Senator Bristow—“That there are some of 
them who did?” 

Mr. Warburg—“‘Oh, yes.” 

Senator Bristow—“Will you please indicate 
—or do you care to indicate—what members of 
your firm supported Mr. Roosevelt in that cam- 
paign ?” 

Mr. Warburg—‘No, sir; I shall have to go 
on the principle that I cannot disclose the busi- 
ness of a member of my firm.” 

The result was this: that in a three-cornered 
fight between three candidates, Roosevelt, Taft and 
Wilson, the men who constituted the firm of Kuhn, 
Loeb & Company, chief Jewish financial institution 
of the United States, distributed their support 
among all three. Schiff for Wilson; Felix Warburg 
for Taft; and an unknown for Roosevelt—was that 
unknown Mr. Kahn? In any case, Wilson won, and 
the above examination relates to a member of the 
firm of Kuhn, Loeb & Company receiving an impor- 
tant appointment which gave him large power over 
the finances of the United States. 

The point of not discussing the affairs of Kuhn, 
Loeb & Company was frequently made by Mr. War- 
burg. 

“T cannot discuss the affairs of the firm nor my 
partners, nor be asked to criticize acts of my part- 
ners, either to approve them or in any other way. 
I would like to say that before we come to the point 
where I would feel that I should not answer any 
question,” said Mr. Warburg. 

The principle of this objection was conceded by 
the Senate Committee, but that_it ought to serve as 
a blanket injunction against a number of pertinent 
inquiries was doubted. 

Senator Bristow—“But you are a partner in 
this firm, and have you not had something to do 
with its operations and its management?” 

Mr. Warburg—“Yes.” 

Senator Bristow—“Does that not go to show 
your general views and practices as a financier 
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Mr. Warburg—“Yes; but you have got to 
take them individually. . . . I cannot permit 
my firm to be drawn into this discussion.” 

Senator Bristow—‘But how can you divest 
yourself from your firm when you have been 
one of the managers of the firm?” 

Mr. Warburg—‘“I shall divest myself of the 
firm.” 

Senator Bristow—‘If the firm has done 
something that I might think was improper—to 
illustrate, being called upon to say whether or 
not I approve your nomination to this respon- 
sible position—have I not a right to know what 
your attitude was in regard to that transaction 
which your firm performed ?” 

Mr. Warburg—‘Well, inasmuch as my an- 
swer there might be a criticism of my firm, I 
would beg to be excused, and I would leave it to 
the committee to draw its own conclusions... .” 

In examining Mr. Warburg about the handling 
of $100,000,000 Southern Pacific securities, the same 
difficulty was experienced; Mr. Warburg objected, 
“but we are getting here again into the transactions 
of my firm!” 

To which Senator Bristow retorted—“Ah! but 
when you participated in the profits of the transac- 
tion, is it not a part of your business life?” 

Mr. Warburg—“Certainly it is a part of my 
business life, and there is no reason why I should 
not be proud of it. But as a matter of principle 
1 think we should not get into a discussion of 
the business of my firm.” 

Senator Bristow—“I am discussing your 
business.” 

Mr. Warburg—‘‘No, you are discussing the 
firm’s business.” 

Senator Bristow—“Did you get any of the 
profits that came from the handling of this 
$100,000,000 ?” 

Mr. Warburg—“‘You may take it that what- 
ever my firm did I got my profits—my share in 
the profits.” 





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Senator Bristow—“Your share in the prof- 
its. Now, without being specific, I take it for 
granted that this was quite material; that that 
was quite a material interest in size; that is, 
that you are one of the important members of 
the firm.” 

Mr. Warburg—“I am one of the important 
members of the firm.” 

Senator Bristow—“Yes, I think the testi- 
mony and the report here show that you are the 
third important member—or the second, which 
is it?—of the firm.” 

Mr. Warburg—“We are not numbered.” 

Senator Bristow—“You are not; all right.” 

Mr. Warburg—“There is Mr. Jacob H. Schiff 
who is the senior.” 

Senator Bristow—‘“Yes.” 

Mr. Warburg—‘“And the others rank very 
much alike.” 

Senator Bristow——‘Yes. We may take it for 
eranted, then, that whatever profits accrued to 
your firm in the handling of this business here 
since you became a member of it, you partici- 
pated in the profits as one of the partners?” 

Mr. Warburg—“Yes, sir.” 

Senator Bristow—“Yes. So I will assume 
then, of course, that you participated in the mar- 
keting of $113,000,000 of Union Pacific, and so 
on.” 

The responsibilities of a member of the Federal 
Reserve Board, especially such a member as Paul M. 
Warburg would be (for it was recognized that be- 
cause of his purpose and connections he would be- 
come a dominating factor), were very great, espe- 
cially at the time when the appointment was being 
considered. They are as important now, of course, 
but in a different way; it is not now a question of 
military safety. This thought was evidently in the 
mind of the senators, as the following shows: 

Senator Hitchcock—“Mr. Warburg, one of the 
important functions of the board is to guard the 
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that it is very important to have men on the board 
who had at heart only the interests of the United 
States, and had no foreign interests or alliances. 
You have said that you proposed to divest yourself 
altogether of your banking connections in- Germany. 
Have you any other interests in Europe?” 

“No, not to speak of,” said Mr. Warburg. “ I 
may have very unimportant things, like everybody 
has; but I could dispose of those; it would not 
amount to anything.” 

Senator Hitchcock—“Nothing in the line of 
banking ?” 

Mr. Warburg—“‘No.” 

A few moments later the chairman, Senator 
Owen, said—(the date was August 1, 1914)—“We 
are on the eve of a great European war, and the or- 
ganization of this board is of great national impor- 
tance.” | 

At this time, Mr. Warburg was a member of the 
Hamburg firm. He testified (p. 7)—“I am going 
to leave my Hamburg firm, though the law does not 
require me to do so.” 

A part of the German firm of his father and 
brothers, a part of the American firm to which he 
and his brother were related by marital as well as 
financial ties, Mr. Warburg repeatedly said he would 
break off all business relationships so that he, like 
Caesar’s wife (to quote himself), should be above 
suspicion, 


Issue of June 25, 1921. 


LIX. 


Jewish Idea of Central Bank 
for America 


CCORDING to his own statements and the facts, 

Paul M. Warburg set out to reform the mone- 
tary system of the United States, and did so. He 
had the success which comes to few men, of coming 
an alien to the United States, connecting himself 
with the principal Jewish financial firm here, and 
immediately floating certain banking ideas which 
have been pushed and manipulated and variously 
adapted until they have eventuated in what is known 
as the Federal Reserve System. 

When Professor Seligman wrote in the Proceed- 
ings of the Academy of Political Science that “the 
Federal Reserve Act will be associated in history 
with the name of Paul M. Warburg,” a Jewish bank- 
er from Germany, he wrote the truth. But whether 
that association will be such as to bring the measure 
of renown which Professor Seligman implies, the 
future will reveal. 

What the people of the United States do not un- 
derstand and never have understood is that while 
the Federal Reserve Act was governmental, the 
whole Federal Reserve System is private. It is an 
officially created private banking system. 

Examine the first thousand persons you meet on 
the street, and 999 will tell you that the Federal Re- 
serve System is a device whereby the United States 
Government went into the banking business for the 
benefit of the people. They have an idea that, like 
the Post Office and the Custom House, a Federal Re- 
serve Bank is a part of the Government’s official 
machinery. 

' It is natural to feel that this mistaken view has 
been encouraged by most of the men who are compe- 
tent to write for the public on this question. Take 
up the standard ehcyclopedias, and while you will 


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find no misstatements of fact in them, you will find 
no direct statement that the I’ederal Reserve Sys- 
tem is a private banking system; the impression car- 
ried away by the lay reader is that it is a part of 
the Government. 

The Federal Reserve System is a system of pri- 
vate banks, the creation of a banking aristocracy 
within an already existing autocracy, whereby a 
great proportion of banking independence was lost, 
and whereby it was made possible for speculative 
financiers to centralize great sums of money for 
their own purposes, beneficial or not. 

That this System was useful in the artificial con- 
ditions created by war—useful, that is, for a Goy- 
ernment that cannot manage its own business and 
finances and, like a prodigal son, is always wanting 
money, and wanting it when it wants it—it has 
proved, either by reason of its inherent faults or by 
mishandling, its inadequacy to the problems of 
peace. It has sadly failed of its promise, and is 
now under serious question. 

Mr. Warburg’s scheme succeeded just in time to 
take care of war conditions, he was placed on the 
Federal Reserve Board in order to manage his sys- 
tem in practice, and though he was full of ideas 
then as to how banking could be assisted, he is dis- 
appointingly silent now as to how the people can be 
relieved. 

- However, this is not a discussion of the Federal 
Reserve System. General condemnation of it would 
be stupid. But it is bound to come up for discus- 
sion one day, and the discussion will become much 
freer when people understand that it is a system of 
privately owned banks, to which have been delegated 
certain extraordinary privileges, and that it has cre- 
ated a class system within the banking world which 
constitutes a new order. 

Mr. Warburg, it will be remembered, wanted only 
one central bank. But, because of political consid- 
erations, as Professor Seligman tells us, twelve were 
decided upon. An examination of Mr. Warburg’s 
printed discussions of the subject shows that he at 


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one time considered four, then eight. Eventually, 
twelve were established. The reason was that one 
central bank, which naturally would be set up in 
New York, would give a suspicious country the im- 
pression that it was only a new scheme to keep the 
nation’s money flowing to New York. As shown by 
Professor Seligman, quoted in the last number, Mr. 
Warburg was not averse to granting anything that 
would allay popular suspicion without vitiating the 
real plan. 

So, while admitting to the Senators who exam- 
ined him as to his fitness for membership on the 
Federal Reserve Board—the Board which fixed the 
policies of the banks of the Federal Reserve System 
and told them what to do—that he did not like the 
12 district banks idea, he said that his objections to 
it could “be overcome in an administrative way.” 
That is, the 12 banks could be so handled that the 
effect would be the same as if there were only one 
central bank, presumably at New York. 

And that is about the way it has resulted, and 
that will be found to be one of the reasons for the 
present situation of the country. 

There is no lack of money in New York today. 
Motion picture ventures are being financed into the 
millions. A big grain selling pool, nursed into ex- 
istence and counseled by Bernard M. ‘Baruch, has no 
hesitancy whatever in planning for a $100,000,000 
corporation. Loew, the Jewish theatrical man, had 
no difficulty in opening 20 new theaters this year— 

But go into the agricultural states, where the 
real wealth of the country is in the ground and in 
the granaries, and you cannot find money for the 
farmer. 

It is a situation which none can deny and which 
few can explain, because the explanation is not to 
be found along natural lines. Natural conditions 
are always easiest to explain. Unnatural conditions 
wear an air of mystery. Here is the United States, 
the richest country in the world, containing at the 
present hour the greatest bulk of wealth to be found 
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wealth; and yet it is tied up tight, and cannot move 
in its legitimate channels, because of manipulation 
which is going on as regards money. 

Money is the last mystery for the popular mind 
to penetrate, and when it succeeds in getting ‘on 
the inside” it will discover that the mystery is not 
in money at all, but in its manipulation, the things 
which are done “in an administrative way.” 

The United States has never had a President who 
gave evidence of understanding this matter at all. 
Our Presidents have always had to take their views 
from financiers. Money is the most public quantity 
in the country; it is the most federalized and gov- 
ernmentalized thing in the country; and yet, in the 
present situation, the United States Government has 
hardly anything to do with it, except to use various 
means to get it, just as the people have to get it, 
from those who control it. 

The Money Question, properly solved, is the end 
of the Jewish Question and every other question of 
a mundane nature. 

Mr. Warburg is of the opinion that different 
rates of interest ought to obtain in different parts of 
the country. That they have always obtained in dif- 
ferent parts of the same state we have always 
known, but the reason for it has not been discovered. 
The city grocer can get money from his bank at a 
lower rate than the farmer in the next county can 
get it from his bank. Why the agricultural rate of 
interest has been higher than any other (when mon- 
ey is obtainable; it is not obtainable now) is a ques- 
tion to which no literary nor oratorical financier 
has ever publicly addressed himself. It is like the 
fact of the private business nature of the Federal 
Reserve System—very important, but no authority 
thinks it worth while to state. The agricultural 
rate of interest is of great importance, but to dis- 
cuss it would involve first an admission, and that 
apparently is not desirable. 

In comparing the present Federal Reserve Law 
with the proposed Aldrich Bill, Mr. Warburg said: 

Bee vWVArDUro——". wakes Ate” IT think that 


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this present law has the advantage of dealing 

- with the entire country and giving them differ- 
ent rates of discount, whereas, as Senator Ald- 
rich’s bill was drawn, it would have been very 
difficult to do that, as it provided for one uni- 
form rate for the whole country, which I thought 
was rather a mistake.” 

Senator Bristow—“That is, you can charge a 
higher rate of interest in one section of the 
country under the present law, than you charge 
in another section, while under the Aldrich plan 
it would have been a uniform rate.” 

Mr. Warburg—“That is correct.” 

That is a point worth clearing up. If Mr. War- | 
burg, having educated the bankers, will now turn 
his attention to the people, and make it clear why 
one class in the country can get money for business 
that is not productive of real wealth, while another 
class engaged in the production of real wealth is 
treated as outside the interest of banking altogeth- 
er; if he can make it clear also why money is sold 
to one class or one section of the country at one 
price, while to another class and in another section 
it is sold at a different price, he will be adding to 
the people’s grasp of these matters. 

This suggestion is seriously intended. Mr. War- 
burg has the style, the pedagogical patience, the 
grasp of the subject which would make him an ad- 
mirable public teacher of these matters. 

What he has already done was planned from the 
point of view of the interest of the professional 
financier. It is readily granted that Mr. Warburg 
desired to organize American finances into a more 
pliable system. Doubtless in some respects he has 
wrought important improvements. But he had al- 
ways the banking house in mind, and he dealt with 
paper. Now, if taking up a position outside those 
special interests, he would address himself to the 
wider interests of the people—not assuming that 
those interests always run through a banking house 
—he would do still more than he has yet done to 


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justify his feeling that he really had a mission in 
coming to this country. 

Mr. Warburg is not at all shocked by the idea 
that the Federal Reserve System is really a new © 
kind of private banking control, because in his Euro- 
pean experience he saw that all the central banks 
were private affairs. , 

In his essay on “American and European Bank- 
ing Methods and Bank Legislation Compared,” Mr. 
Warburg says: (the italics are ours) 

“It may also be interesting to note that, contrary 
to a widespread idea, the central banks of Furope 
are,as a rule, not owned by the governments. Asa 
matter of fact, neither the English, French, nor Ger- 
man Government owns any stock in the central bank 
of its country. The Bank of England is run entirely 
as a private corporation, the stockholders electing 
the board of directors, who rotate in holding the 
presidency. In France the government appoints the 
governor and some of the directors. In Germany 
the government appoints the president and a super- 
visory board of five members, while the stockholders 
elect the board of directors.” 

And again, in his discussion of the Owen-Glass 
Bill, Mr. Warburg says: 

“The Monetary Commission’s plan proceeded on 
the theory of the 'Bank of England, which leaves the 
management entirely in the hands of business men 
without giving the government any part in the man- 
agement or control. The strong argument in favor 
of this theory is that central banking, like any other 
banking, is based on ‘sound credit,’ that the judging 
of credits is a matter of business which should be 
left in the hands of business men, and that the gov- 
ernment should be kept out of business... . . The 
Owen-Glass Bill proceeds, in this respect, more on 
the lines of the Banque de France and the German 
Reichsbank, the presidents and boards of which are 
to a certain extent appointed by the government. 
These central banks, while legally private corpora- 
tions, are semi-governmental organs inasmuch as 
they are permitted to issue the notes of the nation— 


224 THE INTERNATIONAL JEW 


particularly where there are elastic note issues, as 
in almost all countries except England—and inas- 
much as they are the custodians of practically the 
entire metallic reserves of the country and the keep- 
ers of the government funds. Moreover in questions 
of national policy the government must rely on the 
willing and loyal co-operation of these central or- 
gans.” 

That is a very illuminating passage. It will be 
well worth the reader’s time, especially the reader 
who has always been puzzled by financial matters, 
to turn over in his mind the facts here given by a 
great Jewish financial expert about the central bank 
idea. Observe the phrases: 

(a) “without giving the government any part in 
the management or control.” 

(b) “these central banks, while legally private 
corporations. . . . are permitted to issue the notes 
of the nation.” 

(c) “they are custodians of practically the entire 
metallic reserves of the nation and the keepers of 
the government funds.” 

(d) “in questions of national policy, the govern- 
ment must rely on the willing and loyal co-operation 
of these central organs.” 

It is not now a question whether these things are 
right or wrong; it is merely a question of under- 
standing that they constitute the fact. 

It is specially notable that in paragraph (d) it 
is a fair deduction that in questions of national pol- 
icy, the government will simply have to depend not 
only on the patriotism but also to an extent on the 
permission and counsel of the financial organiza- 
tions. That is a fair interpretation: questions of 
national policy are, by this method, rendered de- 
pendent upon the financial corporations. 

Let that point be clear, quite regardless of the 
question whether or not this is the way national 
policies should be determined. 

Mr. Warburg said that he believed in a certain 
amount of government control—but not too much. 
He said: “In strengthening the government con- 


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trol, the Owen-Glass Bill therefore moved in the 
right direction; but it went too far and fell into the 
other and even more dangerous extreme.” 

The “more dangerous extreme” was, of course, 
the larger measure of government supervision pro- 
vided for, and the establishment of a number of Fed- 
eral Reserve Banks out in the country. | 

Mr. Warburg had referred to this before; he had 
agreed to the larger number only because it seemed 
to be an unavoidable political concession. It has 
already been shown, by Professor Seligman, that Mr. 
Warburg was alive to the necessity of veiling a little 
here and there, and “putting on” a little yonder, for 
the sake of conciliating a suspicious public. There 
was also the story of the bartender and the cash 
register. 

Mr. Warburg thinks he understands the psychol. 
ogy of America. In this respect he reminds one of 
the reports of Mr. von Bernstorff and Captain Boy- 
Ed of what the Americans were likely to do or not 
to do. In the Political Science Quarterly of Decem- 
ber, 1920, Mr. Warburg, tells how, on a then recent 
visit to Europe, he was asked by men of all coun- 
tries what the United States was going to do. He 
assured them that America was a little tired just 
then, but that she would come round all right. And 
then, harking back to his efforts of placing his mone- 
tary system on the Americans, he said: 

“T asked them to be patient with us until after 
the election, and J cited to them our experiences 
with monetary reform. I reminded them how the 
Aldrich plan had failed because, at that time, a Re- 
publican President had lost control of a Congress 
ruled by a Democratic majority ; how the Democrats 
in their platform damned this plan and any central 
banking system; and how, once in full power, the 
National Reserve Association was evolved, not to 
say camouflaged, by them into the Federal Reserve 
System.” : 

Remembering this play before the public, and the 
play behind the scenes, this “camouflaging,” as Mr. 
Warburg says, of one thing into another, he under- 


226 THE INTERNATIONAL JEW 


took to assure his friends in Europe that regardless 
of what the political platforms said, the United 
States would do substantially what Europe hoped it 
would. Mr. Warburg’s basis for that belief was, as 
he said, his experience with the way the central 
bank idea went through in spite of the advertised 
objection of all parties. He believes that with Amer- 
icans it is possible to get what you want if you just 
play the game skillfully. His experience with mone- 
tary reform seems to have fathered that belief in 
him. 

Politicians may be necessary pawns to play in 
the game, but as members of the government Mr. 
Warburg does not want them in banking. They are 
not bankers, he says; they don’t understand; bank- 
ing is nothing for a government man to meddle with. 
He may be good enough for the Government of the 
United States; he is not good enough for banking. 

“In our country,” says Mr. Warburg, referring to 
the United States, “with every untrained amateur a 
candidate for any office, where friendship or help in 
a presidential campaign, financial or political, has 
always given a claim for political preferment, where 
the bids for votes and public favor are ever present 
in the politician’s mind, . . . . a direct government 
management, that is to say, a political management, 
would prove fatal. . . . There can be no doubt but 
that, as drawn at present (1913), with two cabinet 
officers members of the Federal Reserve Board, and 
with the vast powers vested in the latter, the Owen- 
Glass Bill would bring about direct government 
management.” 

And that, of course, in Mr. Warburg’s mind, is 
not only “dangerous,” but “fatal.” 

Mr. Warburg had almost his whole will in the 
matter. And what is the result? 

Turn to the testimony of Bernard M. Baruch, 
when he was examined with reference to the charge 
that certain men close to President Wilson had 
profited to the extent of $60,000,000 on stock market 
operations which they entered into on the strength 
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to say in his next war note—the famous “leak” in- 
vestigation, as it was called; one of the several in- 
vestigations in which Mr. Baruch was closely ques- 
tioned. 

In that investigation Mr. Baruch was laboring 
to show that he had not been in telephone communi- 
cation with Washington, especially with certain men 
who were supposed to have shared the profits of the 
deals. The time was December, 1916. Mr. Warburg 
was then safely settled on the Federal Reserve 
Board, which he had kept quite safe from Govern- 
ment intrusion. 

The Chairman—“Of course the records of 
the telephone company here, the slips, will show 
the persons with whom you talked.” 

Mr. Baruch—“Do you wish me to say, sir? 

I will state who they are.” 

The Chairman—“Yes, I think you might.” 

Mr. Baruch—“I called up two persons; one, 
Mr. Warburg, whom I did not get, and one, Sec- 
retary McAdoo, whom I did get—both in refer- 
ence to the same matter. Would you like to 
know the matter?” 

The Chairman—“Yes, I think it is fair that 
you should state it.” 

Mr. Baruch—“TI called up the Secretary, be- 
cause someone suggested to me—asked me to 
suggest an officer for the Federal Reserve Bank, 
and I called him up in reference to that, and dis- 
cussed the matter with him, I think, two or 
three times, but it was suggested to me that I 
make the suggestion, and I did so.” (pp. 570- 
571) 

Mr. Campbell—“Mr. Baruch, who asked you 
for a suggestion for an appointee for the Fed- 
eral Reserve ‘Bank here?” 

Mr. Baruch—“Mr. E. M. House.” 

Mr. Campbell—“Did Mr. House tell you to 
call Mr. McAdoo up and make the recommenda- 
tion ?” 

Mr. Baruch—“TI will tell you exactly how it 
occurred: Mr. House called me wp and said 


228 THE INTERNATIONAL JEW 


that there was a vacancy on the Federal Re- 
serve Board, and he said, ‘I don’t know any- 
thing about those fellows down there, and I 
would like you to make a suggestion.’ And I 
suggested the name, which he thought was a 
very good one, and he said to me, ‘I wish you 
would call up the Secretary and tell him.” 1 
said, ‘I do not see the necessity ; I will tell you.’ 
‘No,’ he said, ‘I would prefer you to call him 
up.’” (p. 575) 

There we have an example of the Federal Re- 
serve “kept out of politics,” kept away from govern- 
ment management which would not only be “danger- 
ous,” but “fatal.” 

Barney Baruch, the New York stock plunger, who 
never owned a bank in his life, was called up by 
Colonel E. M. House, the arch-politician of the Wil- 
son Administration, and thus the great Federal Re- 
serve Board was supplied another member. 

A telephone call kept within a narrow Jewish 
circle and settled by a word from one Jewish stock 
dealer—that, in practical operation, was Mr. War- 
burg’s great monetary reform. Mr. Baruch calling 
up Mr. Warburg to give the name of the next ap- 
pointee of the Federal Reserve Board, and calling 
up Mr. McAdoo, secretary of the United States 
Treasury, and set in motion to do it by Colonel E. 
M. House—is it any wonder the Jewish mystery in 
the American war government grows more and more 
amazing ? 

But, as Mr. Warburg has written—“friendship 
or help in a presidential campaign, financial or po- 
litical, has always given a claim to political prefer- 
ment.” And, as Mr. Warburg urges, this is a coun- 
try “with every untrained amateur a candidate for 
office,” and naturally, with such men comprising the 
government, they must be kept at a safe distance 
from monetary affairs. 

As if to illustrate the ignorance thus charged, 
along comes Mr. Baruch, who quotes Colonel House 
as saying, “I don’t know anything about those fel- 
lows down there and I would like you to make a sug- 


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gestion.” It is permissible to doubt that Mr. Baruch 
correctly quotes Colonel House. It is permissible to 
doubt that all that Colonel House confessed was his 
ignorance about “those fellows.” There was a good 
understanding between these two men, too good an 
understanding for the alleged telephone conversation 
to be taken strictly at its face value. It is possibly 
quite true that Mr. House is not a financier. Cer- 
tainly, Mr. Wilson was not. In the long roll of 
Presidents only a handful have been, and those who 
have been have been regarded as most drastic in their 
proposals. 

But this whole matter of ignorance, as charged 
by Mr. Warburg, sounds like an echo of the Proto- 
cols: 

“The administrators chosen by us from the 
masses will not be persons trained for govern- 
ment, and consequently they will easily become 
pawns in our game, played by our learned and 
talented counsellors, specialists educated from 
early childhood to administer world affairs.” 

In the Twentieth Protocol, wherein the great 
financial plan of world subversion and control is 
disclosed, there is another mention of the rulers’ ig- 
norance of financial problems. 

It is a coincidence that, while he does not use the 
term “ignorance,” Mr. Warburg is quite outspoken 
concerning the benighted state in which he found 
this country, and he is also outspoken about the 
“untrained amateurs” who are candidates for every 
office. These, he says, are not fitted to take part in 
the control of monetary affairs. But Mr. Warburg 
is. Hesays so. He admits that it was his ambition 
from the moment he came here an alien Jewish-Ger- 
man banker, to change our financial affairs more to 
his liking. More than that, he has succeeded; he has 
succeeded, he himself says, more than most men do 
in a lifetime; he has succeeded, Professor Seligman 
Says, to such an extent that throughout history the 
name of Paul M. Warburg and that of the Federal 
Reserve System shall be united, 

Issue of July 2, 1921. 





LX. 


How Jewish International. Finance 
Functions 


“Such has been the development of international 
bankers that they can no longer be regarded in their 
professional capacity as the nationals of any coun- 
try, entitled to do business under their own govern- 
ment’s supervision exclusively. They are really 
world citizens, with world-wide interests, and as 
such ought to be made amenable to some form of 
supernational control.”—George Pattullo, in Satur- 
day Hvening Post. 


Not only did the Jewish financial firm of Kuhn, 

Loeb & Company use far-sighted prudence in 
splitting its political support—one Warburg sup- 
porting Wilson, another Warburg supporting Taft 
and an unnamed member of the firm supporting 
Roosevelt, all at one time, as Paul M. Warburg tes- 
tified—but it split its activities in several other 
ways also. 

The international interests of the Jews compris- 
ing this firm are worthy of note. The influence 
which forced the United States to repudiate a com- 
mercial treaty with Russia while Russia was a 
friendly country (1911), and thus to compel all busi- 
ness between the United States and Russia to pass 
through German-Jewish hands, was generated by 
Jacob H. Schiff. Russia seems to have been the 
country on which he chose to focus his activities. 
The full story is told in Tur Drarsorn INDEPENDENT 
of January 15, 1921, under the title, “Taft Once 
Tried to Resist the Jews—and Failed,” and is re- 
’ printed in Volume IT of the booklet containing this 
series. 

Mr. Schiff’s activity consisted in forcing the Con- 
gress of the United States to do a thing that was 
repugnant to the reason and conscience of President 


HOW JEWISH INTERNATIONAL FINANCE FUNCTIONS 231 


Taft, and which he personally refused to do or to rec- 
ommend. Mr. Schiff left the White House in great 
anger with the threat, “This means war.” It did not 
mean aS much war as it might have, for President 
Taft acquiesced gracefully in the Jewish victory and 
has since been extremely laudatory of them on the 
public platform. 

Mr. Schiff’s firm also helped finance the Japanese 
war against Russia, and in return desired Japan as 
a Jewish ally. The wily Japs, however, saw the 
game and kept their relations with Mr. Schiff to 
purely business matters. Which fact is well worth 
bearing in mind when' reading the widespread propa- 
ganda for war with Japan. If you will give par- 
ticular attention, you will observe that the same in- 
terests which are just now engaged in most loudly 
“defending” the Jew, are most active in spreading 
anti-Japanese sentiments in this country. 

The Japanese war with Russia, however, enabled 
Mr. Schiff to advance his plan to undermine the 
Russian Empire, as it has now been accomplished 
by Jewish Bolshevism. With funds provided by him, 
the basic principles of what is now known as Bol- 
shevism, were sown among the Russian prisoners of 
war in Japan, who were sent back as apostles of de- 
_ struction. Then followed the horrible murder of 
Nicholas Romanoff, Czar of Russia, with his wife, 
his crippled son, and his young daughters, the full 
tale of which has now been told by the Jew who man- 
aged the crime. 

For the part he played in destroying Russia, Mr. 
Schiff was wildly hailed in New York the night the 
news came that the Emperor had abdicated. 

Meanwhile, the Jew who was “to take the Czar’s 
job” (as the common New York ghetto phrase ran, 
weeks before the event) had left New York to be in 
waiting. 

This Jew was passed out of the United States at 
the request of a very high American personage 
whose subservience to the Jews was one of the mar- 
vels of the past seven years. Halted by the British, 
this Jew was released from their toils at the request 


232 THE INTERNATIONAL JEW 


of a very high American personage. And thus, the 
Jewish Bolshevik Revolution in Russia, the program 
of which was made in America, was set in operation 
without a hitch. 

This whole firm is German Jewish, its members 
having originated in Germany. It had German con- 
nections. How far it maintained those ‘connections 
through all subsequent events is a separate question. 

Mr. Otto Kahn’s allotted portion of the world 
seems to be Great Britain and France. Mr. Kahn is 
of German origin, like the rest of the firm, but he 
has not publicly shown such concern for Germany 
as have the other members. Mr. Schiff was once 
very active for the settlement of a peace on the basis 
of a victorious Germany. Mr. Paul M. Warburg 
also had interests, discussion of which is postponed 
for the present. But Mr. Kahn succeeded, through 
the connivance of American authority and the ex- 
cessive repression of the newspapers, in conveying 
the impression that by some species of occult sepa- 
ratism he was not “German-minded.” 

Therefore Mr. Kahn flits lightly everywhere—ex- 
cept Germany. He is sufficiently French to be able 
to tell in the first column on the first page of Le 
Matin on what terms America will do business with 
Europe, and he speaks as one having authority. He 
is sufficiently British to have thought of standing 
for the British Parliament, when an unfortunate 
event made it necessary for him to remain in the 
United States. Mr. Kahn sometimes flits farther 
East into the more Jewish portions of Europe, and 
his comings and goings are marked by certain 
changes with which his name remains most osten- 
tatiously disconnected. 

Mr. Kahn has very recently been telling France 
on what terms the United States will help her. 
There apparently being no other spokesman, Mr. 
Kahn’s word ig accepted as authority. France is 
one of the most Judaized countries in the world, the 
haunt of International Jewish Financiers who exer- 
cise their power (thus saving France the trouble of 
passing laws) to keep the emigrant Jew out of 


HOW JEWISH INTERNATIONAL FINANCE FUNCTIONS 233 


France; so that France presents the spectacle of be- 
ing Judaized by Jewish finance and not by immi- 
grant Semitic hordes, and is thus a fit platform 
from which Mr. Otto Herman Kahn may utter his 
pronouncements. 

In his last declaration to France, Mr. Kahn pre- 
pares her to expect little by stating that “America 
is a country of immense resources; but the actual 
money which the people have at their disposal is 
comparatively limited.” True enough. It was a 
member of Mr. Kahn’s firm who invented a mone- 
tary system which was promised to keep money in 
more equal relation to wealth. 

But as he goes on telling what America will and 
will not do (the American people knowing nothing 
about it meanwhile) Mr. Kahn discovers with great 
enthusiasm a place where he thinks American capi- 
tal can be placed, namely, “in the development of 
the vast and immensely rich colonial empire of 
France.” 

And pray where is that? Any Frenchman would 
tell you now, “In Syria.” Syria—ah!—that part of 
the Hast where the natives are loudly complaining 
that the Jews are driving them out contrary to every 
written and moral law. The Jewish powers have al- 
ready succeeded in getting French troops over there; 
bad blood has been caused between France and 
Great Britain; the Jews on both sides are playing 
for the middle; and here is Mr. Otto Kahn himself 
pledging American capital to the development of the 
French colonial empire! Talk to any Syrian who 
knows his country’s present status, and he will in- 
terpret Mr. Kahn’s words very vividly. 

One of the nicest bits of work Mr. Kahn has done 
is to denounce “pro-German propaganda” which he 
Says has exasperated Americans in favor of France. 
Next to committing the United States to an undy- 
ing admiration for Briand, this is really his finest 
bit. Especially, with Partner Paul playing the Ger- 
man sympathy string! It is a great international 
orchestra, this Jewish financial firm; it can play The 
Star Spangled Banner, Die Wacht am Rhein, the 


234 THE INTERNATIONAL JEW 


Marseillaise, and God Save the King in one har. 
monious rendering, paying obsequious attention to 
the prejudices of each. 

Next come the Warburgs. Their interest is, of 
course, in Germany. Paul stated in his testimony 
given at the beginning of the World War that he 
had interests in Hamburg and would dispose of 
them. The war came on. The Jewish government 
in the United States was augmented. Mr. Warburg 
was no mean figure, as previous articles have shown. 

The Warburgs are three in number. Felix M. is 
the other one in America. He appears but slightly 
in public affairs although he is a member of the 
American Jewish Committee and of the firm of 
Kuhn, Loeb & Company. His retiring habit, how- 
ever, does not argue lack of consequence. He was of 
sufficient consequence, Jewishly, to have bestowed 
upon him a sort of honorary rabbinical degree of 
“Haber” which entitles him to be known as “Haber 
Rabbi Baruch Ben Moshe.” He is the only Jew in 
America upon whom the title has ever been con- 
ferred. 

Max Warburg represents the family in its native 
land. Max Warburg had as much to do with the 
German war government as his family and financial 
colleagues in America had to do with the United 
States war government. As has been recounted in 
the press the world over, the brother from America 
and the brother from Germany both met at Paris as 
government representatives in determining the 
peace. There were so many Jews in the German 
delegation that it was known by the term “kosher,” 
also as “the Warburg delegation.” and there were so 
many Jews in the American delegation that the dele- 
gates from the minor countries of Europe looked 
upon the United States as a Jewish country whic 
through unheard-of génerosity had elected a non-Jew 
as its President. 

Max Warburg is an interesting character also 
as regards the establishment of Bolshevism in 
Russia. The Jews had several objectives in the war, 
and one of them was “get Russia.” To this end the 


WOW JEWISH INTERNATIONAL FINANCE FUNCTIONS 235 


German Jews worked very assiduously. ‘Because 
Russia was a member of the Allies, the work of 
German Jews was made the easier. But the fact 
that Russia was an ally made no difference with the 
Jews who were resident in Allied countries. Win 
or lose, Russia must be destroyed. It is the testi- 
mony of history that it was not so much the Ger- 
man military prowess as the Jewish intrigue that 
accomplished the downfall of that empire. 

In this work Max Warburg was a factor. His 
bank is noted in a dispatch published by the United 
States Government as being one whence funds were 
forwarded to Trotzky for use in destroying Russia. 
Always against. Russia, not for German reasons, but 
for Jewish reasons, which in this particular instance 
coincided. Warburg and Trotzky—against Russia! 

Poor John Spargo, who ought to know better, de- 
nies all this—while every American who comes back 
from Russia, even those who went over there pro- 
Bolshevik, yes, and returned Jews themselves, pro- 
claim it. 

The crushing fact is that Bolshevism is not only 
Jewish in Russia, and in America, but it is Jewish 
in the higher regions of Jewry where better things 
ought to exist. Take Walter Rathenau, a German 
Jew on the plane of the Warburgs. Rathenau was 
the inventor of the Bolshevik system of centraliza- 
tion of industry, material and money. The Soviet 
Government asked Rathenau directly for the plans, 
and received them directly from him. Max War- 
burg’s bank held the money; Walter Rathenau’s 
mind held the plans—which makes it a pertinent 
question: If Bolshevism can be so Jewish outside 
of Russia, what hinders it being Jewish inside 
Russia ? 

It is a most significant fact that, as in Washing- 
ton, the most constant and privileged vistors to the 
White House were Jews, so in Berlin the only pri- 
vate telephone wire to the Kaiser was owned by 
Walter Rathenau. Not even the Crown Prince could 
reach the Kaiser except through the ordinary tele- 
phone connections. It was the same in London. It 





236 THE INTERNATIONAL JEW 


was the same in Paris. It was the same in Petro- 
grad—in Russia which so “persecuted” the race that 
controlled it then and controls it now. 

Now, this sketchy outline of the internationalism 
of the firm of Kuhn, Loeb & Company is not offered 
as the result of keen research, for the facts are found 
on the very surface of the matter, for anyone to see. 
What is revealed by research is this: whether Mr. 
Schiff’s interest in Russia had underground features 
which affected the welfare of the nations; whether 
Mr. Kahn’s flitting missions here and there, which 
he made with great freedom during the war, were 
wholly taken up with the business announced in the 
public notices; and whether Mr. Warburg, whose in- 
terest in Germany has not abated, to judge from his 
recent utterances, was able to retain complete neu- 
trality of mind during the war. These are ques- 
tions of value. Obviously, they are not easy to an- 
swer. But they can be answered. 

It was a family enterprise, this international 
campaign. Jacob Schiff swore to destroy Russia. 
Paul M. Warburg was his brother-in-law; Felix 
Warburg was his son-in-law. Max Warburg, of Ham- 
burg, banker of the Bolsheviks, was thus brother-in- 
law to Jacob Schiff’s wife and daughter. 

Speaking of the far-sighted manner in which the 
house of Kuhn, Loeb & Company disposes itself over 
world affairs, there is also the curious fact that in 
this Jewish firm is one who goes to a Christian 
church—a most heinous thing for a Jew to do. Split 
three ways in American politics and as many ways 
as international matters require, we find this firm 
split two ways with regard to religion. Mr. Kahn 
professes—at least he attends—a Christian church 
and is accounted an adherent of it. Yet he is not 
ostracized. His name is not taboo. The Jews do 
not curse him. He is not denounced as a renegade. 
The Jews have not buried him out of mind, as they 
do others who desert the faith. 

This presents a strange situation when it is con- 
sidered. Not to recount again the horror and repre- 
hension and active antagonism with which Jews 


HOW JEWISH INTERNATIONAL FINANCE FUNCTIONS 237 


view such a desertion, suffice it to say that there is 
no greater marvel than that of Jacob H. Schiff re- 
taining in the firm of Kuhn, Loeb & Company a 
“renegade” Jew. He could not have done it; every 
fiber of his intensely Jewish nature would have re- 
belled against it. Yet there it is! 

Without going further into this ingenious sys- 
tem of covering all vital points from one center, 
enough has been said to show one busy Jewish finan- 
cial firm with which political matters, national and 
international, is almost a profession. The family 
of Warburg high in the controlling group of two 
countries, and enemy countries at that. The family 
of Warburg high in the negotiations of world peace 
and the discussions of a League of Nations. The 
family of Warburg now advising the world from 
both sides of the earth, what to do next. It was 
probably with more reason than the general public 
surmised that a New York paper printed during the 
Peace Conference an article headed, “Watch the 
Warburgs!”’ 
| The fact seems to be that, as Mr. Pattullo is quot- 
ed as saying at the head of this article, the interna- 
tional financiers have been so engrossed in world 
money that the sense of national responsibility some- 
times becomes blurred in their minds. They desire 
everything—war, negotiations and peace—to be con- 
ducted in such a way as to react favorably on the 
money market. For that is their market: money is 
what they buy and sell: and because money has no 
fixed price, it is a market which offers the widest 
opportunity for the trickster and swindler. One can- 
not play such tricks with stone or corn or metals, 
but with money as the commodity everything is 
possible. 

Mr. Warburg is already very much interested 
about the treatment to be accorded foreign securi- 
ties in the next war. Readers of the daily news- 
papers may recall that recently a demand was made 
for the gold in the Reichsbank, which was resisted 
on the ground that the Reichsbank, although the 
central bank of Germany, was really a private con- 


238 TUE INTERNATIONAL JEW 


cern—just as Paul Warburg said it was and just as 
he has insisted that our own Federal Reserve Sys- 
tem should be, and which it is. There is far-sighted 
wisdom in that, with a view to possible defeat in 
war. 

Mr. Warburg is apparently quite disapproving of 
the treatment accorded alien enemy property “by 
some countries.” He quotes a French banker through- 
out—nationality not stated—and drives home his 
point. The French banker used as an illustration a 
possible war between England and France (this was 
only last year) and said that the bankers in each ~ 
country would proceed to withdraw their mutual 
balances and securities, for fear of confiscation, and 
that such a course would precipitate a panic. 

To which Mr. Warburg adds: “I think that our 
bankers ought carefully to study this very serious 
question. We have nothing to gain and much to lose 
by joining in a policy of disregarding the rights of 
private property. We shall probably, in the course 
of time, become the largest owners of foreign securi- 
ties and properties, which would become endangered 
in case we were drawn into war. To me, however, 
it is of greater interest that nothing be done that 
might stand in the way of making the United States 
the gold reserve country of the world....” 

Such talk passes with too little scrutiny. It 
bears a strong reflection of recent events which 
should not be overlooked. Moreover, it presents a — 
grandiose vision which is supposed to command in- 
stant agreement because of its appeal to superficial 
national pride and selfish ambition. 

If what Mr. Warburg says is an intimation that 
the International Jews are planning to move their 
money market to the United States, it is safe to say © 
that the United States does not want it. We have the 
warning of history as to what this would mean. It 
has meant that in turn Spain, Venice, Great Britain 
or Germany received the blame and suspicion of the 
world for what the Jewish financiers have done. It 
is a most important consideration that most of the 
national animosities that exist today arose out of 


HOW JEWISH INTERNATIONAL FINANCE FUNCTIONS 239 


resentment against what the Jewish money power 
did under the camouflage of national names. ‘The 
British did this,” “the Germans did this,” when it 
was the International Jew who did it, the nations 
being but the marked spaces on his checker board. 

Today, around the world the blaming word is 
heard, “The United States did this. If it were not 
for the United States the world would be in better 
Shape. The Americans are a sordid, greedy, cruel 
people.” Why? Because the Jewish money power 
is largely centered here and is making money out of 
both our immunity and Europe’s distress, playing - 
one against the other; and because so many of the 
so-called “American business men” abroad today are 
not Americans at all—they are Jews, and in many 
cases aS misrepresentative of their own race as they 
are of the Americans. 

The United States does not want the transfer of 
All-Judaan to this soil. We do not desire to stand 
as a gold god above the nations. We would serve 
the nations, and we would protect them, but we 
would do both in the basis of real values, not in the 
name or under the sign of gold. 

On the one hand Mr. Warburg recites pitiful 
facts about Germany in order to raise sympathy for 
her, and on the other hand he stimulates the gold 
lust of the United States. The plight of Germany is 
entirely due to the forces from which the United 
States has only narrowly escaped; and to harken to 
international Jewish plans for the rehabilitation of 
Germany is to be in danger of approving plans which 
will fasten Jewish domination more strongly on that 
unhappy country than it is now. Germany has paid 
dearly for her Jews. The Warburg voice that speaks 
for her would seem indeed to be the voice of Jacob, 
but the hand that proposes financial dealings is that 
of Esau. 

The internationalism of the Warburgs is no 
longer in doubt, and cannot be denied. Felix War- 
burg hung on to the Hamburg connection longer 
than did Paul, but the breakage of either was prob- 
ably perfunctory. At the same time that Felix left 


240 THE INTERNATIONAL JEW 


the Hamburg firm of his brother, Max, a Mr. Stern 
also left the Frankfort firm of Stern, and both be- 
came very active on the Allies side, taking sides 
against the German nation as lustily as anyone 
could. “Impossible!” say those who fancy that a 
German Jew is a German. Not at all impossible; 
the Jew’s loyalty is to the Jewish nation; what the 
Jew himself refers to as his “cover nationality” 
may count or not as he himself elects. 

This statement is always met with frothing wrath 
by the Jews’ “gentile fronts” in the purchased pro- 
Jewish press. But here is an example: Do you re- 
member “The Beast of Berlin,” that lurid piece of 
war propaganda? You did not, perhaps, know that 
its producer was a German Jew, Carl Laemmle. 
His German birth did not prevent him making money 
out of his film, and his film does not prevent him 
annually going back in state to his birthplace. This 
year he goes accompanied by Abe Stern, his treas- 
urer; Lee Kohlmar, his director; and Harry Reich- 
enbach—a list of names duplicable in any movie 
group. 

Messrs. Stern and Warburg, of Frankfort and 
Hamburg, respectively, and away from home per- 
haps only temporarily, were not concerned about the 
fate of the “Huns,” but they were immensely con- 
cerned about the fate of Jewish money power in 
Germany. 

To indicate how blind the public has been to the 
inter-allied Jewish character of much of the world’s 
important international financial activity, note this 
from the Living Age earlier in the year: 

“According to the Svensk Handelstidning, 
the recent American loan of $5,000,000 to Nor- 
way was really the outcome of an agreement 
between the Hamburg firm of Warburg & Com- 
pany and the New York bankers, Kuhn and 
Loeb. It is regarded as a significant sign of the 
times that a German firm should be responsible 
for an American loan to a neutral country. The 
eonditions subject to which this money was 
borrowed, are not regarded as very favorable to 


HOW JEWISH INTERNATIONAL FINANCE FUNCTIONS 241 


Norway, and no marked effect on the rate of ex- 
change between the two countries has followed.” 

Note, in the light of all the statements made about 
Kuhn, Loeb & Company, and the Warburgs in par- 
ticular, the assumption in the above quotation that 
the transaction was really between a German and 
an American firm. It was principally an arrange- 
ment between the Warburgs themselves in family 
counsel. But the loan will pass in Norway as “an 
American loan,” and the fact that the terms of the 
loan “are not regarded as very favorable to Norway” 
will react upon Scandinavian opinion of this coun- 
try. It goes without saying that “no marked effect 
on the rate of exchange between the two countries 
has followed,” for that would not be the object of 
such a loan. The dislocation of exchange is not un- 
profitable. 

It would be most interesting to know in how far 
Kuhn, Loeb & Company has endeavored to readjust 
the rate of exchange. ° | 

During the war, Kuhn, Loeb & Company made 
a loan to the city of Paris. Considerable German 
comment was occasioned by this—naturally. And 
it is very well worthy of record that in the city of 
Hamburg, where Max Warburg does business, the 
chief of police issued this order: 

“Further mention in the press of loans made 
by the firm of Kuhn, Loeb & Company to the 
city of Paris, and unfavorable comments there- 
on, are forbidden.” ; 

The following story is vouched for as reliable, 
and if in one or two minor details it does not rep- 
resent the exact fact, it is a trustworthy illustration 
of how certain things were done: 

“A Jewish international banking corporation 
bought up the mining and other similar conces- 
sions of Jugo-Slavia, and consequently the 
policy pushed at the Peace Conference was that 
which was most convenient for that group. An 
understanding on the Fiume question was in 
progress between Wilson and Nitti. Certain 
concessions had been agreed upon and Wilson 


242 THE INTERNATIONAL JEW 


was willing to negotiate, when Oscar Straus and 
one of the Warburgs appeared on the scene. 
Wilson changed his attitude over night and 
afterward insisted on the Jugo-Slavia solution 
of the problem. The way in which concessions 
had been bought through that territory was a 
disgrace, and observers expected that it would 
play an important part at the Peace Confer- 
ence.” 

The financiers are not the only International 
Jews in the world. The revolutionary Jews, of all 
countries and none, are international also. They 
have seized upon the idea of Christian international- 
ism, which means amity between nations, and have 
used it as a weapon with which to weaken national- 
ity. They know as well as anyone that there can be 
no internationalism except on the basis of strong 
nationalism, but they count on “cover words” to 
advance their plan. 

Enough transpired between the lower and higher 
Jewish groups of every large center during the war 
to render it imperative that Jewry confess, repent 
and repudiate the madness that has ruled it, or else 
boldly assert and espouse it before the world. 

Certainly enough has transpired to render it de- 
sirable that the American people look again into the 
purposes of those Jews who were instrumental in re- 
organizing our financial system at a most critical 
time in the world’s history. 

Max Warburg was apparently strong enough to 
suppress German discussion of his brothers’ activ- 
ity in America. The Warburgs at present resident 
in America must suffer it, therefore, that American 
comment be made as full as need be. 


Laue GE ule 9) a2 1s 


LXI. 


Jewish Power and America’s Money 
Famine 


‘THE international Jewish banker who has no 

country but plays them all against one another, 
and the International Jewish proletariat that roams 
from land to land in search of a peculiar type of 
economic opportunity, are not figments of the imagi- 
nation except to the non-Jew who prefers a lazy 
laxity of mind. 

Of these classes of Jews, one or both are at the 
heart of the problems that disturb the world today. 
The immigration problem is Jewish. The money 
question is Jewish. The tie-up of world politics is 
Jewish. The terms of the Peace Treaty are Jewish. 
The diplomacy of the world is Jewish. The moral 
question in movies and theaters is Jewish. The 
mystery of the illicit liquor business is Jewish. 

These facts are unfortunate as well as unpleasant 
for the Jew, and it is squarely up to him to deal 
with the facts, and not waste time in trying to de- 
stroy those who define the facts. These facts are 
interpreted by the Jew and the anti-Semite with 
strange extremes of blindness. The Jew never gets 
the world’s point of view at all; he always gets the 
anti-Semite’s point of view; and the anti-Semite 1s 
equally at fault in always getting the Jew’s point of 
view. What both need is to get society’s point of 
view, which is the one being set forth in this present 
series of articles. . 

To say that the immigration problem is Jewish 
does not mean that Jews must be prohibited entry to 
any country; it means that they must become rooted 
to a country in loyal citizenship, as no doubt some 
are, and as no doubt most are not. To say that the 
money question is Jewish does not mean that Jews 
must get out of finance; it means that they must rid 
finance of the Jewish idea which has always been 


244 THE INTERNATIONAL JEW 


to use money to get a strangle-hold on men and busi- 
ness concerns, instead of using finance to help gen- 
eral business. To say that the tie-up of world poli- 
tics is Jewish does not mean that Jews, as human 
beings, are to be denied a voice in affairs; it means 
that they must give up trying to make the world 
revolve around the Jewish nation as its axis. To 
describe the influence of the Jew on the theater is 
not to demand that he leave the theater, but it is to © 
demand that he rid the theater of his idea that sen- 
sualism is entertaining. 

The Jewish Question is first for the Jews to 
solve; if not, the world will have to solve it for 
them. They may stay in business, say the theater, 
for example, if they will cease spoiling the theater ; 
if they do not cease, the theater will be taken away 
from them just as certainly as that day follows 
night. The world has been patient and the world 
will be fair, but the world knows the limit of impo- 
sition. 

It is not the true Jewishness of the Jew, nor yet 
the nationalism of the Jew that is on trial, but his 
anti-national internationalism. <A true Mosaic Jew 
—not a Talmud Jew—would be a good citizen. A 
nationalist Jew would at least be logical. But an 
international Jew has proved an abomination, be- 
cause his internationalism is focused on his own 
racial nationalism which in turn is founded on his 
ingrained belief that the rest of humanity is inferior 
to him and by right his prey. Jewish leaders may 
indulge in all the platitudes they possess, the fact 
which they cannot deny is that the Jew has for cen- 
turies regarded the “goyim” as beneath him and 
legitimately his spoil. 

The internationalism of the Jew is confessed 
everywhere by him. Listen to a German banker: 
imagine the slow, oily voice in which he said: 

“We are international bankers. Germany lost 
the war ?—what of it?— that is an affair of the army. 
We are international bankers.” 

And that was the attitude of every international 
Jewish banker during the war. The nations were in 


JEWISH POWER AND AMERICA’S MONEY FAMINE 245 


strife? What of it? It was like a Dempsey-Carpen- 
tier bout in New Jersey, or a baseball game in Chi- 
cago—an affair of the fighters—“we are internation- 
al bankers.” 

A nation is being hamstrung by artificial ex- 
change rates; another by the sucking of money out 
of its channels of trade; what of it to the interna- 
tional banker ?—he has his own game to play. Hard 
times bring more plums tumbling off the tree into 
the baskets of the international bankers than does 
any other kind of times. Wars and panics are the 
Jewish international bankers’ harvests. 

Citizens wake up with a start to find that even 
the white nations are hardly allowed to see each 
other nowadays except through Jewish eyes. When 
the United States supposedly speaks to France, 
through whom does she speak? All that France 
sees is Otto H. Kahn! Why must a Jew represent 
the United States of America to France? When 
France supposedly speaks to the United States, 
through whom is it done? Through Viviani, Jewish 
in every thought and method. Now they are talking 
of sending Millerand over, another Jew. Britain 
sends Lord Reading. Germany sent Dr. Dernberg. 
And to other countries the United States sent Mor- 
genthau, Strauss, Warburg, and lesser Jewlings. 

It comes with something of a shock to learn that 
Foch is coming to the United States. We have not 
seen a Frenchman since Joffre visited us. It is good 
to see men of the white race come across the sea as 
if to reassure us that white men still live in those 
countries. The business of the Peace Conference 
was done by Jews—has it come to a point where in- 
ternational diplomacy is to become a Jewish monop- 
oly also? Must the special conversations between 
France, Britain and the United States be held 
through Jewish interpreters, while Anglo-Saxons 
and true Frenchmen do the routine embassy work 
—or shall it be possible for the non-Jewish nations 
to see one another occasionally through non-Jewish 
representatives ? 

Internationalism is not a Jewish conviction, but 


246 THE INTERNATIONAL JEW 


a Jewish business device. It is most profitable. In 
Samii and at the immigrant station, interna- 
tionalism pays. Jews interpret nation to ‘nation in 
the high rites of special conversations between goy- 
ernments; Jewish interpreters swarm at the ports 
of every country also, where the poor swarm in. It 
was stated in the House of Lords the other day that — 
most of the trouble in Palestine was caused by Jew- 
ish interpreters. It was charged that the Jewish 
administration added an extra language to the offi- 
cial list in order to make Jewish interpreters in- 
dispensable. 

Go through the government of the United States, 
where the income tax secrets are kept, where the 
Federal Reserve secrets are kept, where the State 
Department secrets are kept—and you will find 
Jews sitting at the very spot where International 
Jewry desires them to sit, and where nothing is 
kept from their knowledge. 

Go abroad and come back to your country, and 
a Jew will open the gate to let you in, or close it 
to keep you out—as he chooses. 

“Will you be going to Detroit while you are 
here?” asked a Jewish government agent of a gen- 
tleman entering the country on a visit.a few weeks 
ago. 

“IT may go to Detroit,’ was the reply. 

“Well, you go to the damned Drarsorn INpDszE- 
PENDENT and tell them a Jew let you into this coun- 
try,” said the government agent. 

What the visitor replied is known, but had better 
not be quoted. The American Jewish Committee 
might shriek that the people were being incited to 
pogroms. 

The incident, however, is but a sample of what 
is occurring every day. The truth about the Jewish 
Question in the United States is perhaps the one 
form of truth that cannot be indiscriminately told. 

The international Jewish bankers regard them- 
selves as in similar fashion “letting” the nations 
do this or that, regarding the nations not as father- 
lands but as customers—and as customers in the 


JEWISH POWER AND AMERICA’S MONEY FAMINE 247 


Jewish sense. If an army wins or loses, if a gov- 
ernment succeeds or fails, what of it?—that is their 
affair—‘we are international bankers,” and we win, 
whoever loses. 

For international Jewish bankers, the war is not 
over. The period of actual hostilities and the emer- 
gencies of the nations were but the opening of the 
trade. The ready cash was skimmed in then—all 
the cash the world had. True, some of it had to be 
distributed among the people as war wages and 
bonuses, in order to keep the struggle going, but this 
was soon recovered through the means of high prices, 
artificial scarcities and the orgy of extravagance 
deliberately organized and stimulated among the 
people. That phase over, and money disappeared. 

‘Is there any more tragic joke than that diligently 
disseminated in this country—“The United States 
has more gold than any other country in the world”? 
Where is it? How long since you have seen a piece 
of gold? Where is all this gold—is it locked up in 
the Treasury of the United States Government? 
Why, that government is in debt, desperately trying 
to economize, cannot pay a soldier bonus because 
the finances of the country cannot stand it! Where 
is that gold? It may be in the United States, but 
it does not belong to the United States. 

The American farmer, and those American in- 
dustries which were not “wise” to the tricks of inter- 
national Jewish bankers, and who were nipped by 
small loans, are wondering where all this money is. 
Furthermore, Europe, suffering from every possible 
lack, is looking to us and wondering where the 
money is. 

This dispatch in a London paper may throw light 
on the matter: (italics are ours) 

“Tt is learned today that new gold shipments 
aggregating $2,800,000 are consigned to Kuhn, 
Loeb & Company, New York, making nearly 
$129,000,000 imported by that firm since the 
movement started. In responsible banking cir- 
cles the belief is expressed that some of the Ger- 
man coin recently imported by the firm is from 


248 THE INTERNATIONAL JEW 


Russia, instead of Germany, as generally sup- 
posed.” 

This dispatch, coupled with one printed in a for- 
mer article which showed Warburg & Company of 
Germany arranging with Kuhn, Loeb & Company of 
New York for a $5,000,000 loan to Norway, is not 
devoid of light on the question—Where is the 
money ? 

The Jewish international banking system may be 
easily described. First, there is the international 
Jewish headquarters. This was in Germany. It had 
ramifications in Russia, Italy, France, Great Britain 
and the South American states. (South American 
Jewry is very menacing.) Germany and Russia were 
the two countries scheduled for punishment by the 
International Jewish bankers because these two 
countries were most aware of the Jew. They have 
been punished; that job is done. 

Jewish political headquarters, as related to the 
internal affairs of the Jews, was also located in Ger- 
many, but the headquarters dealing with the “goy- 
im” was in France. Statements have been made 
that the political center of Jewry has been trans- 
planted to the United States. But these statements 
have been made by American Jews whose wish may 
have been father to the thought. During the Wilson 
Administration it was possible for a Jew to think 
and to hope this, but affairs have slightly changed. 
The ousting of American Jews from the Zionist 
movement at the behest of Eastern Jews indicates 
that if the political center of world Jewry has shift- 
ed to the United States, the power is still in the 
hands of aliens resident here. The center is still in 
Jewry; the United States is merely a square on 
Jewry’s world checker-board. 

But, wherever the financial and political world 
centers may be, each country is separately handled. 
In every country—the United States, Mexico and 
the republics of South America; in France, Eng- 
land, Italy, Germany, Austria—yes, and in Japan— 
there is an international Jewish banking firm which 
stands at the head of the group for that country. 


JEWISH POWER AND AMERICA’S MONEY FAMINE 249 


Thus, the chief Jewish firm in the United States is 
Kuhn, Loeb & Company, of which one of the mem- 
bers is Paul M. Warburg, brother of M. Warburg & 
Company, of Hamburg; and another member of 
which is Otto H. Kahn, resident successively of Ger- 
many, Great Britain and the United States, and seltf- 
appointed financial spokesman for the United States 
to France and Great Britain. Great Britain and 
France seldom see a special American spokesman 
who is nota Jew. That may be the reason why they 
reciprocate by sending Jews to us, thinking perhaps 
that we prefer them. 

Paul M. Warburg was the inventor, perfector and 
director of the Federal Reserve System of the Unit- 
ed States. He is not the only Jew in the Federal 
Reserve System, but he was the chief Jew there. His 
mind counted for a great deal. There were others 
in the war government, of course; Bernard M. Bar- 
uch; Eugene Meyer, Jr.; Hoover’s regiment of Jews; 
Felix Frankfurter; Julius Rosenwald—hundreds of 
them, and everywhere; but the financial group alone 
is receiving our attention just now, and they are not 
so notably successful in getting the country out of 
financial difficulty as they were in other lines of 
effort. 

The Federal Reserve System may not be a bad 
system, in spite of the fact that it yields govern- 
ment monetary functions to private financial cor- 
porations, but there are all sorts of testimony that 
it has been badly manipulated. Mr. Warburg, the 
reader will remember, spoke about certain things 
being “overcome in an administrative way,” show- 
ing that there was a certain amount of “play” or 
loose motion in the system which could be manipu- 
lated either way. The fact remains that the coun- 
try went swimmingly through the war by reason of 
the assistance of the System, and is coming very 
lamely through the Peace, as the result, monetary 
experts say, of the hindrance of the same System. 
Mr. Warburg, whcse name was so prominently con- 
nected with the advertisement of the glory of the 


250 THE INTERNATIONAL JEW 


System, must also stand being mentioned in con- 
nection with the criticism. 

Whatever money we are said to have as the per 
capita in the United States, it is a false statement. 
The money per capita should always be figured on 
the basis of the money in circulation. The statis- 
tical “per capita” is not always in circulation. Less 
than half of it, as a rule. The rest is being juggled. 

Whatever the gold in the country, the wealth is 
still greater. There is more wealth in the United 
States than there is gold in the world. One year’s 
products of the farms of the United States exceeds 
in money value all the gold in the world. 

Yet, under our present system, the burgeoning 
bulk of the country’s wealth must pass through the 
narrow neck of Money. And the Money must pass 
through the still narrower neck of Gold. And the 
controller of the Gold, under our present system, 
controls the world. There is more wealth than there 
is money; there is more money than there is gold; 
money exists at the pleasure of gold; wealth moves 
at the pleasure of money. Whoever sits at the neck 
of money, opening or closing as he will, controls the 
movement of the world’s wealth. And the world’s 
prosperity depends on the movement of that wealth. 
When wealth stands still and does not pass from 
hand to hand, the world’s circulation has stopped; 
the world becomes economically sick. 

The scarcity of cash in hand has led to Credit. 
Credit is a form of barter. It is a form of dealing 
by which many transactions are carried on, only the 
final one being cleared’'in money. It is a device 
which has its dangers, in spite of the efforts of apolo- 
gists to exploit its advantages. But one thing the 
system of Credit indubitably does—it allows the 
money masters to hang on to the Cash. When the 
world is caught, it is caught with paper, not with 
Cash. The Cash is always in the hands of those 
who extol the advantage of the Credit System. Who 
holds money holds power, and will hold it, until real 
barter or real money comes in fashion again. 

In 1919-1920, according to one of the best mone- 


JEWISH POWER AND AMERICA’S MONEY FAMINE 251 


tary authorities in the United States, the total 
shrinkage in values of the products of our fields, 
mines, factories, mills and forests represented a sum 
greater than the total gold supply of the world. It 
runs as high as the total amount of Liberty Bonds 
outstanding. 

People say, “Well, the prices were too high.” 
Certainly they were too high, but who and what 
made them too high? It was the generosity with 
which money was supplied by the private Federal 
Reserve System. There was plenty of money. Peo- 
ple say, “Well, the shrinkage is only in paper val- 
ues; the real value of the product is still there.” 
Certainly, but when you live under a system in which 
“real” value and “money” value are so intimately 
intertwined that it affects your bread and butter, 
the tenure of your farm, and the steadiness of your 
job, it is pretty hard to separdte the two. Moreover, 
when your prosperity was due to the readiness of a 
group of men to let out money, and your adversity 
is due to the unwillingness of the same group, and 
your own welfare and your country’s welfare is thus 
see-sawed up and down without any reference to 
natural law but solely upon determinations taken 
in committee rooms, you naturally inquire, “Who is 
doing this? Where is all the money gone? Who is 
holding it? Here is the wealth of the country; here 
is the need of the country; where is the money to 
transfer the wealth to the need? Every condition 
remains as it was, except money.” 

We have a Federal Reserve System which still is 
benefiting by the assistance of its perfector and di- 
rector, Paul M. Warburg. And what is the condi- 
tion in the United States? | 

Some of the biggest industrial institutions in the 
country now in the hands of creditors’ committees. 

Farmers being sold out by the hundreds, their 
horses bringing about $3 each. 

Cotton and wool enough to clothe the nation, 
spoiling in the hands of the men who raised it and 
cannot dispose of it. 

Every line of business, railroading. newspaper 


252 THE INTERNATIONAL JEW 


publishing, store-keeping, manufacturing, agricul- 
ture, building, in depression. Why? For lack of 
money. 

Where is the money? This is the country that is 
supposed to be the financial center of the world— 
where is the money? 

It is in New York. The Federal Reserve System, 
which Mr. Warburg desired to head up in one cen- 
tral bank, has just about turned out that way. The 
money is in New York. Here is the charge made to 
the governor of the Federal Reserve Board by a re- 
sponsible public official who knows: 

While there is a scarcity of money for the pro- 
ducing sections of the West and Northwest, the 
South and Southwest, “we find that individual 
banks in New York City are borrowing from the Re- 
serve System, in a number of cases, more than 
$100,000,000 each; and sometimes as much as $145.,- 
000,000 is loaned there to a single bank—twice as 
much as some of the Reserve ‘Banks have been lend- 
ing recently to all the member banks in their dis- 
Lol LEL Roe 

One bank in New York borrowed $134,000.000, or 
$20,000,000 more than the Federal Reserve Bank of 
Kansas City was advancing to 1,091 member banks 
in that Reserve District which covers the states of 
Kansas, Nebraska, Colorado, Wyoming, and parts of 
Missouri, Oklahoma and New Mexico. 

At the same time, another New York bank was 
borrowing from the Federal Reserve Bank about 
$40,000,000, which was more than the aggregate 
loans which the Federal Reserve Bank of Minneap- 
olis was lending to its 1,000 member banks in the 
great states of Minnesota, North and South Dakota, 
Montana and part of Wisconsin. 

Another New York bank borrowed from the Fed- 
eral Reserve Bank a sum which was greater by $30,- 
000,000. than the Federal Reserve Bank at Dallas 
was lending to all the banks in Texas, Louisiana 
and Oklahoma. 

Still another New York bank got a loan which 
equaled the total loans allowed by the Federal Re- 


JEWISH POWER AND AMERICA’S MONEY FAMINE 253 


serve Bank of St. Louis to the 569 member banks of 
that very important district, which includes the 
whole state of Arkansas, parts of Illinois, Indiana, 
Kentucky, Tennessee and Mississippi, and the larger 
part of Missouri. 

Take the Fifth Federal Reserve District, served 
by the Federal Reserve Bank at Richmond, Virginia: 
one New York bank was able to borrow from the 
New York Reserve Bank more than the Richmond 
Reserve Bank would lend to all its member banks 
in Maryland, Virginia, North and South Carolina 
and the larger part of West Virginia. 

That is the situation. The twelve regional banks, 
which were supposed to make money serve all parts 
of the country equally, have apparently been “over- 
come in an administrative way” to such an extent 
that the New York Federal Reserve Bank is to all 
intents and purposes the Central ‘Bank of the United 
States, and serves the speculative part of the coun- 
try with millions, while the productive part of the 
country is permitted to wilt with paltry thousands. 

When it can occur that four New York banks 
can borrow from the New York Federal Reserve 
Bank as much money as the banks of 21 states were 
able to borrow from the five Federal Reserve Banks 
of St. Louis, Kansas City, Minneapolis, Dallas and 
Richmond—there would seem to be need of explana- 
tion somewhere. 

Where did this money loaned in New York come 
from? It came from those parts of the country 
where money was scarcest. In May, 1920, the word 
went out over telephones—“The tie-up will come on 
the 15th.” And it came. Credit was stopped. Pay- 
ment was pressed. A stream of money, literally 
squeezed out of the producing sections of the coun- 
try, began to roll toward New York. Otherwise 
those giant loans just recorded would have been im- 
possible. It was pressure, Federal Reserve pressure, 
politely known as deflation, and that is the way it 
worked. The banks of the West were squeezed dry 
that the banks of New York might overflow. 

“The money was withdrawn from legitimate busi- 


254 THE INTERNATIONAL JEW 


ness in various parts of the country to be loaned at 
jancy rates in Wall Street,” says the official referred 
to above. 

The speculative banks, it has been discovered, 
were able to borrow money at six per cent, which 
money they loaned at as high as 20, 25 and 30 per 
cent. 

Federal Reserve deflation created a scarcity 
which speculative banks utilized. The Federal Re- 
serve policy took the money out; New York banks 
borrowed the money thus taken out, and loaned it 
at tremendous rates—rates which people paid to 
stave off the ruin caused by the moneyless condition 
which the ill-measured deflation process brought on. 

And all this time the Federal Reserve System 
was in the best financial condition of its whole ca- 
reer. In December, 1920, it had 45 per cent of its 
reserves, which was a higher reserve than it had in 
December, 1919. But at this writing (July, 1921) 
the reserve has reached 60 per cent. 

The money is in New York. Go out through the 
agricultural states, and you will not find it. Go 
into the distriets of silent factories and you will not 
find it. It is in New York. The Warburg Federal 
Reserve has deflated the country. A System that 
was intended to equalize the ups and downs of finan- 
cial weather has been used “in an administrative” 
way to deplete the country of money. 

The Federal Reserve Idea was doubtless right; if 
it had not been, it could not have been established. 
But it has been manipulated. It has not been a 
“federal” reserve; it has been a private reserve. It 
has been operated in the interest of bankers and not 
of everyone in general. Capable of being used to 
carry the country gradually back to a natural flow 
of business and to a natural level of prices, it was 
used to bludgeon business at a critical time and to 
bludgeon it in such a way that money-lenders prof- 
ited when producers suffered. 

If that is the fact, there is no American banker 
but will say that the method was wrong; economi- 


JEWISH POWER AND AMERICA’S MONEY FAMINE 255 


cally wrong, logically wrong, commercially wrong, 
if not criminally wrong. 

Today the Federal Reserve boasts of its own re- 
serve as if that were a sign of national economic 
health. With the country struggling to live, the 
Federal Reserve ought to be low, not high. The 
height which the reserve has reached is a measure 
of the depth of the country’s depression. 

If the Federal Reserve would let out a part of 
that flood of money—a high financial authority sug- 
gests that less than 10 per cent would do it—it 
would be like an infusion of blood into the nation’s 
veins. 

Kuhn, Loeb & Company, the Speyers and the oth- 
er Jewish money-lenders have money for Mexico, 
Norway, Germany, and all sorts of commercial com- 
panies being organized to do business overseas, and 
it is American money. The Warburg Federal Re- 
serve System has been badly misused, badly manip- 
ulated, and the country is suffering from it. 

Still, the people know not what to do.. Money is 
still a mystery. Banking is still sacrosanct. What 
would be perfectly apparent if done in ordinary busi- 
ness intercourse with a $5 bill, is exceedingly com- 
plicated when the sum is five millions and the par- 
ties are (1) country banks, (2) Federal Reserve 
banks and (8) Wall Street speculative institutions. 
Yet they are only Tom, Dick and Harry with a $5 
bill, after all. 

The matter is somewhat affected by the gags that 
are placed on many men competent to criticize. 
High officials are more or less tied up, by campaign 
contributions in which all financial concerns have an 
interest. Legislative officials are, too many of them, 
indebted to these same interests.. A schedule of the 
private debts of some of the men who have aspired 
to the Presidency in the last eight years would be 
very illuminating—almost as illuminating as a 
schedule of the names of “Jews at whose homes they 
stayed while on journeys through the country. Men 
who are thus tied up with the present financial sys- 
tem cannot say what in their minds they know. 


THE INTERNATIONAL JEW 


It is all illustrated in the testimony of T. Cushing 


Daniel before a committee of Congress. It shows to 
what an extent the power of this private corporation 
ealled the central bank can reach: 


“When going through the Bank of England 
I presented a letter which I had from Secre- 
tary Hay, and the official of the bank was very 
polite. He took me through the bank and when 
we got back to the reception room I asked him 
if he would allow me to put a few leading ques- 
tions to him. He said he would, and I asked 
him if he would give me a statement of the Bank 
of England. ‘We do not issue statements.’ 
‘Does not the House of Parliament sometimes 
call on you for some statement as to the condi- 
tion of the bank?’ ‘No, sir; they do not call on 
us.’ . .. . ‘How is it that some of these revolu- 
tionists, so-called, do not get up in the House 
of Commons and raise the devil to know some- 
thing about what is going on down here? That 
would be the condition in our country.’ ‘Oh, 
most of them are large borrowers from the bank, 
Se have no difficulty with them’ (laugk- 
ter 


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